Solidarity Economy in Food and Agriculture

Discussion

ARC:

Similarly, Landcare, Access to Land initiatives (like Terre de Liens), tech sovereignty farmer-to-farmer movements like Farm Hack, L'átelier Paysan, and iterations of farm hack utilising digital Peer to Peer (P2P) and (neo) Commons movements and show that there is lots of potential in multi stakeholder sharing responsibility and resources of initiatives – including EIPs utilising the more progressive aspects of the CAP show how we can collectively manage regions and what’s produced in them.

"In food, Community Supported Agriculture is the most comprehensive SSE model, though the Italian GAS, French AMAP, and also two models from Japan – Teikei and the lesser known Seikatsu are arguably operating on a larger scale and are more impactful than the CSA movement at present. CSA involves farmers and eaters sharing the risks, responsibilities and rewards of production: eaters promise cash up front for a long period of time and get both a guaranteed supply and a say in what’s produced, and how it is produced. Typically, its food produced in an agroecological manner that’s sought out by CSA adherents. Externalities – pollutions and costs borne by society and the environment – are more internalised, via closed nutrient loops, mixed farming and other techniques from the organic handbook. In other word,s its like a self-taxing system for the good of the living world.

Similarly, Landcare, Access to Land initiatives (like Terre de Liens), tech sovereignty farmer-to-farmer movements like Farm Hack, Láterier Paysan, and iterations of farm hack utilising digital Peer to Peer (P2P) and (neo) Commons movements and show that there is lots of potential in multi stakeholder sharing responsibility and resources of initiatives – including EIPs utilising the more progressive aspects of the CAP show how we can collectively manage regions and what’s produced in them." (http://www.arc2020.eu/rural-dialogues-stochastic-system-collapse-part-2-the-social-and-solidarity-economy-alternative/?)