Sustainable Agri-Food Economies: Re-Territorialising Farming Practices, Markets, Supply Chains, and Policies

Berti, G.

doi:10.3390/agriculture10030064

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“…As an alternate solution, we can make a general statement that local and regional products are made with sustainable production methods and can be distributed through shorter supply chains [14,15]. Local products belong to the identity of a given settlement or region [16], embody a local value, and can be linked to a certain settlement mainly through historical heritage and tradition [17]. According to Feldmann and Hamm [18], the most frequently found definition of local food referred to distances, kilometers, or miles.…”

Section: Conceptual Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Compared to this willingness to pay, we consider the monthly quantity of purchased products low. An explanation for this phenomenon may be Feldmann and Hamm's (2015) [16] remark that, in addition to examining willingness to pay, the purchased quantity should also be taken into account. The two may even contradict each other.…”

Section: Consumer Preference For Local Products-compared To the Intermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Examining the Role of Local Products in Rural Development in the Light of Consumer Preferences—Results of a Consumer Survey from Hungary

Kiss

Ruszkai²,

Szűcs

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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The scientific examination of short food supply chains is justified by consumer interest and their role in the European Unions’ subsidy policy and rural development. In our current article, we present the results of a consumer survey of more than a thousand people from Hungary. It was conducted in the North Hungarian (rural) region. Our research goals were: (1) To access consumer demand for short food supply chains and to determine the characteristics of consumers who prefer local foods; and (2) to examine the role of short food supply chains in rural development by a territorial comparison. The results showed that consumers’ willingness to pay a theoretical premium for local products was high (averagely +20.7%). Compared to that, we considered their monthly purchased quantity low. We found a statistically valid, yet weak, correlation that on a monthly basis, the purchase of local products was more significant for consumers from smaller settlements and villages than those from (greater) cities. Furthermore, there were factors in some consumers’ preferences that indicated a greater interest for small producers’ goods. Although it was not possible to assess the absolute demand of the studied rural area, these results (at a certain level) confirm the potential of short food chains in rural development.

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Section: Conceptual Approachmentioning

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Section: Consumer Preference For Local Products-compared To the Intermentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the Role of Local Products in Rural Development in the Light of Consumer Preferences—Results of a Consumer Survey from Hungary

Kiss

Ruszkai²,

Szűcs

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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“…Territorialization is an overhead view of a physical area or territory and describes how different symbolic and material characteristics come to dominate or contest a territory (Guzmán Luna et al, 2019). As Guzmán Luna et al (2019, p. 765) state, "territorialization is never definite, " which highlights the role of diverse actors, food systems, markets, values, and policies simultaneously contesting space (Maye et al, 2016;Berti, 2020). We argue that amplification and territorialization are complementary processes that integrate aspects of both scaling up and scaling out in a constructive way.…”

Section: Amplification and Territorialization Processesmentioning

confidence: 71%

Amplifying Agroecological Farmer Lighthouses in Contested Territories: Navigating Historical Conditions and Forming New Clusters in Japan

McGreevy

Tamura

Kobayashi

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Individual agroecological farms can act as lighthouses to amplify the uptake of agroecological principles and practices by other farmers. Amplification is critical for the upscaling of agroecological production and socio-political projects emphasizing farmer sovereignty and solidarity. However, territories are contested spaces with historical, social, cultural, and economic contexts that can present challenges to the effectiveness of farmer lighthouses in catalyzing localized agrarian change. We explore these amplification dynamics through fieldwork in a particular region of Japan employing interviews and data derived from an assessment of nine farms using ten amplification indicators. The indicators include social organization, participation in networks, community leadership, and degrees of dependency on policies or markets among others, as well as degree of adoption of on-farm agroecological practices, all of which capture farmer lighthouses' potential to amplify territorial upscaling. At the same time, we trace the historical development of a previous generation of Japanese farmer lighthouses practicing organic agriculture in alignment with agroecological principles that experienced, to varying degrees, push-back, co-option, and successful territorialization in rural communities. We find that many of the same social and cultural territorial dynamics are still influential today and affecting the amplifying effect of agroecological farmer lighthouses, but also find examples of new clustering around lighthouses that take advantage of both the historical vestiges of the previous generation's efforts as well as contemporary shifts in practice and agrarian orientation. This research calls for a detailed dissection of the dynamic and contrasting processes of agroecological territorialization and the ways in which diverse contexts shape agroecological upscaling.

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“…According to the United Nations' Agenda 2030 of Sustainable Development, it is important to accelerate the shift towards a sustainable development and to spread the concepts of sustainability and resilience [10]. Urban food systems have proven themselves to be highly vulnerable to several threats; it has become crucial to make urban food systems more resilient [11]. Moreover, the majority of the 17 Goals of Agenda 2030 include themes that are directly or indirectly linked to food systems [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

Tarra

Mazzocchi²,

Marino

2021

Agriculture

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The restriction measures linked to the COVID-19 shock suddenly highlighted the vulnerability of most socioeconomic systems, including the food sector. In a context in which the limitation to the movement of people and goods has put the longer and more structured supply chains in serious difficulty, many experiences and initiatives have emerged as viable alternatives. The aim of the research was to understand if and how the Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPG) of Rome have contributed to the resilience of the food system of the metropolitan city during the lockdown. The research was based on the results of a questionnaire administered to the SPGs of Rome during the first period of the pandemic (April–July 2020), enriched by some in-depth interviews carried out by the authors. What emerged was that, despite the limited extent in terms of products conveyed within the whole food system, the SPGs represented an important food supply channel during the lockdown period, for two main reasons: a greater flexibility and agility in moving and in handling goods and the possibility of remunerating local farms, contributing to the resilience of the local agri-food fabric. The analysis of the results confirms the strong vitality of such Food Movements in Rome and, at the same time, allows for the identification of a series of interventions that the institutions could adopt to favor the spread of a food environment more compatible with more sustainable and fairer forms of food production and distribution.

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Sustainable Agri-Food Economies: Re-Territorialising Farming Practices, Markets, Supply Chains, and Policies

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

Examining the Role of Local Products in Rural Development in the Light of Consumer Preferences—Results of a Consumer Survey from Hungary

Examining the Role of Local Products in Rural Development in the Light of Consumer Preferences—Results of a Consumer Survey from Hungary

Amplifying Agroecological Farmer Lighthouses in Contested Territories: Navigating Historical Conditions and Forming New Clusters in Japan

Food System Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Roman Solidarity Purchasing Groups

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