Understanding the organization of sharing economy in agri-food systems: evidence from alternative food networks in Valencia

Dentoni, Domenico; Pascucci, Stefano

doi:10.1007/s10460-017-9778-8

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“…Internal disruptors could include stresses arising from benefit capture by individuals, gender imbalances in benefits and farm abandonment in favour of employment in urban areas. Nonetheless, many advantages have been found in the sharing economies of connected food systems where goods and services are pooled (Miralles et al , 2017), such as a more even distribution of power, increased collaborative consumption, higher trust and more efficient use of resources. Agricultural transformations will be critical in the coming years both for contributing to reducing climate forcing and for mitigating negative effects.…”

Section: Securing Sustainabilitymentioning

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Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

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Non-technical summary Until the past half-century, all agriculture and land management was framed by local institutions strong in social capital. But neoliberal forms of development came to undermine existing structures, thus reducing sustainability and equity. The past 20 years, though, have seen the deliberate establishment of more than 8 million new social groups across the world. This restructuring and growth of rural social capital within specific territories is leading to increased productivity of agricultural and land management systems, with particular benefits for those previously excluded. Further growth would occur with more national and regional policy support.

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Section: Securing Sustainabilitymentioning

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Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

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“…Most recent papers [62,63] have started to examine Community Gardens as another form of AFN. This is often done in the context of urban agriculture.…”

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Sustainability in Alternative Food Networks: A Systematic Literature Review

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In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to individuals’ organizing themselves and managing food systems in an ‘alternative’ and more sustainable way. Such emerging food initiatives are most commonly known as ‘Alternative Food Networks’ (AFNs). However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the extent to which AFNs facilitate social, economic and environmental change. There are criticisms of the overall sustainability promise of AFNs related to sufficiency of impact, possible counter effects and the relevance of impacts. Because empirical studies often only focus on specific sustainability issues or AFNs, it has been difficult to develop more robust theories about the relations between diverse AFNs arrangements and sustainability. Thus, the aim of this paper is to contribute towards reducing this knowledge gap through a systematic literature review on AFNs in relation to sustainability. We summarize main methodological approaches, the types of AFNs studied and sustainability dimensions addressed in literature to date. Findings serve as reference to propose opportunities for future research regarding sustainability in AFNs.

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“…Schumilas and Scott's (2016) findings, the business models for these farms consist of a sustained market demand for safe (often organic) produce allied to a complex web of non-market social relations with a network of consumer-activists. For Johnston (2008), this is about collectivizing consumption, while Levkoe (2011) refers to collectivizing subjectivities around food and Miralles, et al, (2017) refer to the sharing economy. As Schumilas and Scott (2016: p. 305) observe, the collective nexus between producers and consumers found in relation to these farms suggests the emergence of '… hybrid market-civil society networks (that) identify and work towards common interests and reframe analysis towards 102 collective and away from individualist responses to food system challenges.'…”

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The new urban agricultural geography of Shanghai

2018

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The new urban agricultural geography of Shanghai Abstract：Agricultural geography has remained largely trapped in a neoclassical economic paradigm in which farm types have been understood to be predominantly products of location and global markets. This paper attempts to subvert this approach by reflecting on the emerging culture of small scale ecological farming in Shanghai. Such farms have been growing in number since 2000, driven largely by the availability of land and an increasing demand for safe and healthy food. While being a rational productivist response to a market opportunity, however, these farms reflect a break with conventional farming, in terms of their size, location and new farmer identities, as well as their socio-cultural relationships with customers and local communities. Using a survey of 45 such farms, the paper illustrates how and where new forms of farming, and the alternative food networks that they support, are colonizing the city. While being redolent of the growth in urban farming in many western cities, farming in Shanghai is driven by private individuals with personal and family, as well as broader community, motives. This suggests that while Shanghai may be experiencing the growth of alternative forms of what might be understood as civic agriculture, those involved are not primarily interested in the civilizing mission ascribed to many such movements. Rather, the new farms are hybrid service businesses in which the sales and marketing skills of the new farmers have allowed them to transform individual customers into members of food networks who form mutual codependent trust relationships that underpin the survival of the farms. Perhaps as a result of this, and despite strong demand for organic food, these new farms face a marginal existence in which business development is constrained as much by the strength and continuity of their food networks as it is by the quality and quantity of food that they can grow.

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Understanding the organization of sharing economy in agri-food systems: evidence from alternative food networks in Valencia

Abstract: sustainable transitions-on how to tailor institutional norms and develop networks to meet the heterogeneous needs of different typologies of sharing economy initiatives in agri-food systems.

Cited by 52 publications

References 62 publications

Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

Sustainability in Alternative Food Networks: A Systematic Literature Review

The new urban agricultural geography of Shanghai

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