Moving beyond the alternative: sustainable communities, rural resilience and the mainstreaming of local food

Franklin, Alexandra; Newton, Julie; McEntee, Jesse C.

doi:10.1080/13549839.2011.574685

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“…localized food schemes as middle-class, niche endeavours (e.g. see Franklin et al, 2011). Thus overall, it can be argued that, for some predominant examples at least, the SE re-embeds and potentially encourages a societal commitment to continued, unquestioned economic growth (see Schultz & Bailey, 2014) and unfettered consumer access to non-essential goods and services, such as tourist accommodation.…”

Section: Is Sharing Really Caring? Questioning Social and Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Hobson

Lynch

2016

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Programmes and policies for a Circular Economy (CE) are fast becoming key to regional and international plans for creating sustainable futures. Framed as a technologically driven and economically profitable vision of continued growth in a resource-scarce world, the CE has of late been taken up by the European Commission and global business leaders alike. However, within CE debates and documentation, little is said about the social and political implications of such transformative agendas. That is, whilst CE proponents claim their agenda is 'radical', this paper outlines its inability to address many deeply embedded challenges around issues of consumption and the consumer, echoing as it does the problematic (and arguably failed) agendas of sustainable consumption / lifestyles. Using the Sharing Economy as an example, we argue here that the ontological and sociological assumptions of the CE must be open to more 'radical' critique and reconsideration if this agenda is to deliver the profound transformations that its advocates claim are within our collective reach.

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Section: Is Sharing Really Caring? Questioning Social and Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Hobson

Lynch

2016

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“…Resilience studies need to examine bottom-up and top-down pathways for communities to influence their future. Communities are heterogeneous, encompassing competing groups, individuals and values, and as a result, different levels of resilience (and vulnerabilities) may be evident at different times and within the context of different issues or challenges facing a given community at any one point in time (Wilson 2012;Franklin et al 2011). Therefore, building resilient communities involves a complex and iterative process of interactions between multiple pathways at a range of scales (Skerratt & Steiner 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…rural Digital Economy Research Hub, University of Aberdeen, worked with a conceptual framework of resilience to evaluate the use of new digital technologies and the impacts of superfast broadband deployment within rural communities. 1 In the context of persistent digital divides between urban, peripheral and rural areas, and the rolling out of UK government 'digital by default' strategies (Farrington et al 2013;Thornham 2013), it is increasingly important to examine the 'social geographies of resilience' (Franklin et al 2011) in terms of digital access, adoption and inclusion. Across rural development and digital policy, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are expected to fill gaps in, supplement and enhance rural services and are sometimes viewed as a panacea to social problems experienced in rural locales.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience

Roberts

Farrington

Skerratt

2015

Scottish Geographical Journal

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This paper explores how an evaluative framework of resilience might be utilised to assess the impact of new digital technologies. This paper outlines key themes and indicators from recent literature on community-level and rural resilience and incorporates insights from work on digital inclusion and rural information and communication technologies to build a framework of rural community resilience. It then highlights a successful case study carried out by the Digital Engagement and Resilience project and describes some of the methodological challenges that can be encountered in cross-cutting evaluative work in a digital economy context. Finally, it contextualises this work in the current policy climate of rural digital agendas to stress the growing need for holistic and critical approaches to 'resilience'.

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“…In their study Fisher et al [16] stated: "Food hubs are, or intend to be, financially viable businesses that demonstrate a significant commitment to place through aggregation and marketing of regional food." In the same vein, Franklin et al [17] and Franklin and Morgan [18] pointed out that community food hubs provide to local producers and consumers the coordination of activities such as sourcing, supply, and/or marketing and distribution of products. According to these authors, the primary goals sustainability-oriented community FHs are environmental protection goals, and the economic viability of local farmers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The town of Stroud has a population of 13,260 inhabitants (2011 census) and displays socioeconomic characteristics typical of English semi-rural communities. The area is well known for its long established local food movement which includes one of the most popular farmers' market in the UK, as well as a community-supported agriculture (CSA) project and a co-operative allotment project of national importance [17]. In this context, in 2008, two local food activists set up a community-led FH.…”

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The Role of ICTs in Supporting Collaborative Networks in the Agro-Food Sector: Two Case Studies from South West England

Gala

Reed

2017

Collaboration in a Data-Rich World

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DisclaimerThe University of Gloucestershire has obtained warranties from all depositors as to their title in the material deposited and as to their right to deposit such material.The University of Gloucestershire makes no representation or warranties of commercial utility, title, or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, express or implied in respect of any material deposited.The University of Gloucestershire makes no representation that the use of the materials will not infringe any patent, copyright, trademark or other property or proprietary rights.The University of Gloucestershire accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR TEXT.This is a pre-print version of the paper submitted to Working Abstract. Over recent years, in a wide range of countries, grassroots initiatives have emerged aimed at overcoming the limits of the mainstream agro-business system. These initiatives aim at improving farmers' access to local and regional markets and consumers' access to fresh local produce. Among these initiatives, Food Hubs have emerged as a promising way to improve local food supply systems. They represent collaborative networks of producers and consumers that aggregate, distribute, and market local food products. ICTs enable these collaborative networks by allowing information exchange among their actors and by providing collaborative tools that allow quick co-ordination between members of the network. The paper aims to analyse, through a multi-case study analysis, how the adoption of ICTs have fostered the development of new, "alternative" initiatives oriented at establishing local food networks and to reconnect producers and consumers. The study will present results from the analysis of two food-hub initiatives based in South West England, which are adopting informative systems to support their activities and to implement novel business models: Stroudco Food Hub and Dean Forest Food Hub.

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Moving beyond the alternative: sustainable communities, rural resilience and the mainstreaming of local food

Cited by 70 publications

References 39 publications

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience

The Role of ICTs in Supporting Collaborative Networks in the Agro-Food Sector: Two Case Studies from South West England

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