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Beyond Alternative Food Networks - Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups (Hardcover, New)
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Beyond Alternative Food Networks - Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups (Hardcover, New)
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Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are
numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of
food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair
Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging
foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN)
scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based
purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics
underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success.
Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets
the principles behind these movements and key themes such as
collective buying, relationships with local producers and
consumers, financial management, to the everyday political and
practical negotiation involving GAS groups. Vitally, the author
demonstrates how GAS processes are key to providing survival
strategies for small farms, local food chains and sustainable
agriculture as a whole. Beyond Alternative Food Networks offers a
fresh and engaged approach to this area, demonstrating the capacity
for individuals to join organised forms of alternative political
ecologies and impact upon their local food systems and practices.
These social groups help to create new economic circuits that help
promote sustainability, both for the environment and labor
practices. Beyond Alternative Food Networks provides original
insight and in-depth analysis of the alternative food network now
thriving in Italy, and highlights ways such networks become
embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative
relationships, and social networks.
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