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Reconnecting producers andconsumers:
the experience of solidarity purchasegroups
Symposium ‘Feeding theCity’
Siena School for LiberalArts
June 25-26, 2014
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Sustainable development
Brundtland definition (WCED 1987):
“Development that meets the needs of thepresent without compromising the ability offuture generations to meet their own needs”
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Problems with the ideaof sustainable development
• “Development that meets the needs of thepresent without compromising the ability offuture generations to meet their ownneeds”
• Which needs exactly?
• Whose needs exactly (at home andabroad)?
• …And aren’t needs constantly changinganyway?
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Which way forward? Option 1
• Ecological modernization
• Resolving the apparent contradictions ofeconomic growth and environmentalconservation through a combination ofclean technologies and other smartpractices
• Reconciling the material benefits ofindustrial society with environmentalconservation: we can, indeed, have ourcake and eat it too
• Same or more consumption
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Which way forward? Option 2
• Thinking ethically (sustainably) aboutconsumption
• Animal welfare, fair trade, sustainabilityconsiderations (e.g. organic, low-input),provenance, quality
• Knowledge as power, removing the veil
• People’s power
• Alternative food networks
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Alternative food networks
“Network”: Primary producers, food artisans,intermediaries (but genuinely interested inpromoting ethical and high-quality food),consumers and others, like restaurateurs,food writers, social entrepreneurs
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A typology of alternative food networks:
• Face to face: farmers’ markets, farmshops and roadside stalls, pick-your-own,box schemes, home deliveries (onlinepurchases)
• Spatial proximity: consumer cooperatives,fairs (farmers’ markets), gastronomictourism routes, arrangements betweenfarm shops (Bottega di Stigliano)
• Spatially extended (social distance?):special foods with formal labels(Parmigiano Reggiano cheese,Champagne wine, Fair-trade products)