Nuevos actores e innovaciones sociales para el desarrollo rural: El caso de las zonas periurbanas de Madrid y Guadalajara (España)

Abstract

In the last years, new forms of commercialisation through short supply chains have been emerging and taking shape. In these new forms, the traditional economic agents act together with social agents. New citizenship is arising and begins to organise itself, carrying us to an interest in its forms of action, and on the nature of its propositions. One aspect of these renewed actions consists in the reconstruction of connection throughout food producers participating in "Short Food Supply Chains" (SFSCs). That implies multiple dimensions, such as those linked with productive activities, territorial articulation, and with the emergence of new social links based on trust. The present paper aims to highlight the intermediaries' strategies and the agency of SFSCs actors, analysing the social and economic dynamics they generate, and their role in the construction of consumer's new connections with the rural spaces.

International Conference Socioecos 2024

“…In order to set these processes in motion, it is necessary to identify territories in which there is a social substratum prone to change. As a result of our research trajectory, we consider that protected spaces and those in which agroecological practices have found a place, with a prominent women's agency, meet the preconditions to host these initiatives (Ramírez-García and Mancha-Cáceres, 2023; Mancha-Cáceres and Ramírez-García, 2018;Ramírez-García et al, 2016).…”