Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
The marketisation of food and the rise of mass retailers have created an unbalanced supply chain where, above all, small producers and customers are weaker. In contrast to this scenario, in the last twenty years agriculture and food markets have become an increasingly relevant space for the experime...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:215480 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/215480 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.22325/fes/res.2019.26 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Political consumerism Solidarity purchasing groups Buying power Social innovation Marginalisation Consumismo político Cooperativas de consumo solidario Poder adquisitivo Innovación social Marginalización Alternative Food Networks Solidarity Purchasing Groups |
| Sumario: | The marketisation of food and the rise of mass retailers have created an unbalanced supply chain where, above all, small producers and customers are weaker. In contrast to this scenario, in the last twenty years agriculture and food markets have become an increasingly relevant space for the experimentation of innovative social practice in order to fix this anomaly and try to rebalance the distribution of value in the whole supply chain. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPGs) are one of these innovations and they could represent one of the most relevant tools to combat the buying power of mass retailers. However, the analysis in the paper shows that SPGs are social innovations that only partially achieve this goal of reducing the economic marginalisation of their suppliers by setting up an alternative distribution channel. |
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