A new rural in the city: A no-middlemen markets’ ethnography

Papacharalampous, Nafsika

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.06.002

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“…To create an efficient marketing channel, many suggest cutting out intermediaries, skipping the middleman, and selling directly from the producer to the consumer (Papacharalampous, 2021), like research by Indrasari and Komari (2021) about laying fish value chain. However, the realization of this goal is not as simple as it seems, as middlemen, wholesalers, and retailers still play an important role in the product's journey to reach consumers (Crona et al, 2010).…”

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Optimizing Coastal Management: A Comprehensive Value Chain Analysis Approach for Sustainable Economic Development in Java, Indonesia

Rozaki,

Ariffin,

Ramli

et al. 2023

JIPK

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Coastal areas have become an important part of Indonesia's evolving economy, with a variety of commercial activities taking place. The island of Java has both northern and southern coastal areas, each with its own distinctive characteristics and products. The studies about coastal development through its product value chain are still limited. This study aimed to determine the value chain of fishery products in Java to provide recommendations for enhancing coastal management. For the northern coast, milkfish and ariid catfish from Juwana Coast (Pati Regency, Central Java) were selected, while Whiteleg Shrimp from Mendit Coast and Trisik Coast of Kulon Progo Regency, Yogyakarta were chosen to represent the southern coast. The study involved 48 respondents, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), farmers, fishermen, wholesalers, middlemen, retailers, restaurants, and consumers. The analysis techniques used in this study included Porter’s value chain, Hayami’s added value, Return/Cost (R/C) Ratio, and marketing margin analysis. The results of the study revealed that the products followed various channels in the value chain, with longer chains leading to higher prices for the end consumers. The findings also indicated that processed and creatively packaged products tend to command higher prices and generate greater profits. Coastal management should not only focus on upstream activities but also consider downstream processes to increase the value of coastal products. Efforts to enhance coastal management should consider key actors and government interventions through developing the coastal local products. Highlight Research The coastal area of Java Island makes a significant contribution to the local economy. The supply chain of Whiteleg Shrimp, Ariid Catfish, and Milkfish involves various actors who play important roles in maintaining the distribution of coastal products. Value chain analysis reveals opportunities to increase and improve the quality of products to enhance their worth. It is necessary to enhance coastal management by involving local institutions, the government, and the private sector.

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Optimizing Coastal Management: A Comprehensive Value Chain Analysis Approach for Sustainable Economic Development in Java, Indonesia

Rozaki,

Ariffin,

Ramli

et al. 2023

JIPK

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“…Those involved in market creation, the citizenproducers and citizen-consumers reclaimed responsibility from the middlemen, the market and state, and thereby not only shared political responsibility but also collective resilience to crisis. Based on this observation, Papacharalampous (2021) argues that it is the relational trust built during economic hardship that builds the longer term ties and resilience. In other words, it is the direct relationships that count for responsible exchange.…”

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Governing food futures: Towards a ‘responsibility turn’ in food and agriculture

Arnold

Brunori

Dessein

et al. 2022

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Rick, George, and Vicky participate in what, following trends in the social science literature, can be called an alternative food network (Goodman et al, 2012; Papacharalampous, 2021; Sarmiento, 2017). Food provisioning initiatives positioned as “alternative” to the conventional system have proliferated in the US and Europe.…”

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“…These modes of food production, distribution, and consumption, also called alternative food movements, are diverse. They include environmental practices such as permaculture, organic agriculture, and small‐scale production, food localization and reterritorialization schemes, solidarity purchasing groups, designations such as Fair Trade, and food justice movements (e.g., Allen & Hinrichs, 2007; Bowen, 2010; Donner et al, 2017; Gillette & Vesterberg, 2022; Goodman et al, 2012; Grasseni, 2020; Kass, 2022; Kosnik, 2018; Marsden et al, 2018; Papacharalampous, 2021; Rissing, 2019; Weiss, 2016). While alternative food networks (AFNs) are heterogenous, scholars have noted that their participants share (1) the desire to work against the existing food system, and (2) efforts to access food from outside this system (Sarmiento, 2017; see also Barlett, 2017; Goodman et al, 2012).…”

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Polanyi and the Other Alternative Food Network: What San Francisco‐Based Multi‐Level Marketers of “Healthy” Food Tell UsAboutValues in Market Societies

Kristiansen,

Gillette

2023

Economic Anthropology

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Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of alternative food networks (AFNs) in the US and Europe. While social scientists classify heterogenous practices as AFNs, their participants share the desire to work against the existing food system, and efforts to access food from outside this system. Many analysts have captured these features of AFNs by using concepts from Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Yet while Polanyi's framework has been productive, it has also contributed to binary representations of alternative food movements as either advancing non‐market values or in service to commodification and hegemony. We scrutinize San Francisco‐based independent contractors who sell food alternatives and health supplements produced by a multi‐level marketing company we call NatureRise. The marketers of NatureRise products are committed to working against an industrial food system that they consider corrupt. They promote food alternatives that they regard as more natural than food in the conventional system, and embed sales in face‐to‐face relations in which a family‐like concern for human wellbeing is expressed. Yet, they also engage in sales for what Polanyi calls “the motive of gain.” Our case highlights a shortcoming in Polanyi's thought, one that characterizes many social analyses, while supporting the continued relevance of his work.

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A new rural in the city: A no-middlemen markets’ ethnography

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Optimizing Coastal Management: A Comprehensive Value Chain Analysis Approach for Sustainable Economic Development in Java, Indonesia

Optimizing Coastal Management: A Comprehensive Value Chain Analysis Approach for Sustainable Economic Development in Java, Indonesia

Governing food futures: Towards a ‘responsibility turn’ in food and agriculture

Polanyi and the Other Alternative Food Network: What San Francisco‐Based Multi‐Level Marketers of “Healthy” Food Tell UsAboutValues in Market Societies

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