Economic Crisis as a Catalyst for Food Planning in Athens

Skordili, Sophia

doi:10.1080/13563475.2013.770635

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“…This was a protest against low prices and merchants' tactic to reject part of the produce to control final prices. While farmers were in difficulty, food prices “have remained relatively high despite the recession” (Skordili :136). A civic group from Katerini, in Central Greece, organized then direct sales of potatoes at low cost.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Food poverty in Greece is both “the result of inadequate household income, as well of limited choices of sourcing food in the city due to food retail sector consolidation. Corporate retailers have been criticized for greed and unethical pricing practices” (Skordili :129). The inflation of food prices during a recession suggests unwarranted middlemen profiteering.…”

Section: Alternative Economies In the Basque Country And Greece (1): mentioning

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Alternative Food Economies and Transformative Politics in Times of Crisis: Insights from the Basque Country and Greece

Calvário

Kallis

2016

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Why and how do alternative economies emerge, how do they develop and what is their contribution, if any, to transformative politics? Alternative economies proliferate in the countries worse hit by economic crisis and austerity, such as Spain or Greece. Yet the existing literature is stuck in a counter-productive division between celebration and critique. We move beyond this division applying philosopher Daniel Bensaïd's understanding of politics to two alternative food economies, one in the Basque Country and one in Greece. We illuminate the activist strategies and specific conjunctures within which the two alternatives emerged and explain how they develop in the face of political-economic barriers. Alternative economies, we conclude, can be transformational when they are inserted in activist strategies directed to extend conflict, social struggles and challenge the capital-state nexus. Resumen: ¿Por qué y cómo emergen las economías alternativas, cómo se desarrollan y de que manera contribuyen, si es que lo hacen, a la política transformadora? En los países más afectados por la crisis económica y las políticas de austeridad, como España o Grecia, proliferan experiencias de economías alternativas. Sin embargo, la literatura no ha discutido más allá de las visiones o bien celebradoras o bien críticas de las economías alternativas, generando una división contra-productiva para la análisis. En este artículo vamos más allá de esta división, aplicando la comprensión de política de Bensaïd a dos economías alimentarias alternativas, una en el País Vasco y una en Grecia. Mostramos las estrategias de activismo y coyunturas específicas dentro de la cuales surgieron ambas alternativas y explicamos cómo se desarrollan frente a barreras institucionales y económicas. De esta manera, concluimos que las economías alternativas pueden ser transformadoras cuando se insertan en estrategias activistas dirigidas a ampliar los conflictos y las luchas sociales desafiando el nexo entre capital y estado.

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Section: Alternative Economies In the Basque Country And Greece (1): mentioning

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Alternative Food Economies and Transformative Politics in Times of Crisis: Insights from the Basque Country and Greece

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Kallis

2016

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“…In the North, the cities of Toronto (Blay-Palmer, 2009;Mah and Thang, 2013), New York (Morgan and Sonnino, 2010;Morgan, 2015) and San Francisco (Morgan and Sonnino, 2010) are considered among the pioneers. On the other side of the Atlantic, attempts to develop integrated urban food strategies have reached the United Kingdom (see Carey, 2013 for a discussion on Bristol; Partnership for Coventry, 2017), Northern Europe (Wiskerke, 2009;Cretella and Buenger, 2016) and Greece (Skordili, 2013). Similarly, examples are visible in Australia (Caraher et al, 2013), China (Lang and Miao, 2013), Brazil (Rocha and Lessa, 2009) and several other parts of the Global South, where the debate around ecological and integrated food systems is closely intertwined with that around food sovereignty, access to land and the rights of the peasants .…”

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Routledge Handbook Of Food As A Commons

Vivero-Pol¹,

Ferrando²,

Schutter³

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From the scientific and industrial revolution to the present day, food -an essential element of life -has been progressively transformed into a private, transnational, mono-dimensional commodity of mass consumption for a global market. But over the last decade there has been an increased recognition that this can be challenged and reconceptualized if food is regarded and enacted as a commons.This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning. The overall aim is to investigate the multiple constraints that occur within and sustain the dominant food and nutrition regime and to explore how it can change when different elements of the current food systems are explored and re-imagined from a commons perspective. Chapters do not define the notion of commons but engage with different schools of thought:First published 2019 by Routledge

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“…In the 1990s, Belgian, French and German food retailers (most prominently Delhaize, Carrefour, and Lidl) began operating in Greece, either through acquisitions of domestic supermarket chains or through the setting up of subsidiary operations. This led to a rapid increase in the presence of large supermarket chains in Greece, measured through the number of stores and the volume of sales, as well as their relative share in total sales (Skordili 2013), allowing them to squeeze out smaller competitors and to exercise significant power over consumers and farmers.…”

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The Neoliberal Restructuring of Agriculture and Food in Greece

Konstantinidis

2016

Review of Radical Political Economics

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While public debt has become the focal point of discussions of the Greek crisis, the Greek crisis has been used as an opportunity to extend a series of neoliberal reforms. I examine the agricultural and food sector of Greece since 1981 and I show how Greece’s integration into the European market, following Greece’s entry in the European Economic Community led to (a) the dismantling of agricultural and food production in Greece and (b) the increased power of middlemen in the Greek food system. The three structural adjustment programs that were implemented in Greece after 2010 increased the liberalization of Greek agriculture and the centralization of the food sector. These changes had adverse implications for both farmers and consumers: farmers faced liberalization and increased costs of production, while consumers saw increased food prices despite internal devaluation.

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Economic Crisis as a Catalyst for Food Planning in Athens

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Alternative Food Economies and Transformative Politics in Times of Crisis: Insights from the Basque Country and Greece

Alternative Food Economies and Transformative Politics in Times of Crisis: Insights from the Basque Country and Greece

Routledge Handbook Of Food As A Commons

The Neoliberal Restructuring of Agriculture and Food in Greece

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