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Peasant economics in the twenty-first century: building a ”polis” in the wild
No full textThe structural features characteristic of presentday humans are the same as those of the line of 3.5 million year old hominids to which we belong. From the beginning of humankind, food has played a crucial role in creating communities. Indeed, the changes in the early hominids that made language possible relate to their history as social animals in closeknit interpersonal relationships associated with collecting and sharing food. Conversely, nowadays the food economy is the most evident symptom of human alienation. Thus, the basic assumption of this paper is that civic agriculture based on the economy of the commons needs to rediscover the original nature of food, namely an element of mutual cognition and community creation. We explore how a rethought peasant agriculture can be crucial to such a goal. Nevertheless, peasant economics does not appear feasible in urban society mainstream economics and this creates the paradox of sustainable development. The Solidarity Purchasing Group (SPG) experience in Marche Region, Italy, shows the main features of this paradox and offers an effective perspective to investigate the role of peasant agriculture in a post-industrial society
Hidden effects of agricultural income support: an analysis of the impact of policies applied to processing tomato market
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The Emerging Role of the Peasant Economy at the End of the Industrial Age: Insights from Albania
Full text linkAbstractAccording to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014), by 2050 the world society will need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 40-70 percent compared to 2010, and reach the end goal of net zero emissions before 2100. At the same time, the global food system is now responsible for up to one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions (Gilbert, 2012). This means that, given the present conditions in terms of climate, demography and technology, the world society should be capable of progressing, not regressing, toward a sustainable rural economy before 2050, relying on a per capita availability of arable land, not matching the current world population distribution, which is around 0.20 hectares at present. On this premise, the present article claims that peasant agriculture oriented to family livelihood will be a key sector in the next wave of economic development. Therefore, in order to support this statement, the Albanian agriculture case study will be considered. This is because the case of Albania is a distinctive case in Europe of peasant agriculture, it being structurally oriented to family auto-consumption and local food markets. Referring to a rural economy based on peasant agriculture as a modern one seems to be a paradox. Nevertheless, climate change is pushing the ontological shift towards an agro-ecological paradigm in which an ecologically driven conception of value addressing societal reproduction rather than capital accumulation is emerging (McMichael, 2012). Thus, the present article aims to describe the role of peasant agriculture in economic development under the constraint of climate change, applying this topic to the empirical case of Albania
"Effetti nascosti" nel sostegno dei redditi agricoli: un'analisi di incidenza di politiche applicata al mercato del pomodoro da industria
No full textPathways to Vocational Training for Workers on Fisheries Sector, in Handbook for Sustainable Fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea
No full textProject EL/01/B/F/PP-114012, Leonardo da Vinci Programm
Globalizzazione e sviluppo: quale futuro per le imprese del latte?
No full textPrograma Red-Alfa EuropeAID, Proyecto Neruda N° II 0439-A, Atti di Seminario, Università Politecnica delle Marche, www.alfa-neruda.com
Constraints and strengths of microfinance in agriculture: a comparison between Albania and Honduras to make assumptions on the trajectories of territorial rural development
No full textProceedings: International Conference "Fostering Development of Agriculture in Albania Through Improved Use of Agricultural Resources" Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana, AHEED Project (Hawai University and USAID) and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
Il mercato agroalimentare dei GAS nella Regione Marche: scenari e dinamiche in tema di sviluppo territoriale rurale e organizzazione di reti solidali
No full textIl presente contributo costituisce un capitolo del libro: "aDESso". Economie solidali e cittadini consapevoli. Le determinanti culturali economiche e politiche che caratterizzano i GAS e il mondo del consumo critico (Orazi, 2011). Tale libro è il frutto di una ricerca sul mondo delle economie solidali marchigiane, realizzata grazie ad un contributo della Fondazione Banca Etica a cui si è aggiunto un co-finanziamento della Regione. Il volume è caratterizzato da un approccio multidisciplinare che rispecchia le modalità reticolari e non programmate attraverso le quali gli autori si sono incontrati nel tavolo di lavoro coordinato da REES Marche. Si è trattato di un’esperienza che ha dato vita ad una spontanea comunità professionale di docenti universitari uniti da comuni interessi e dall’idea di portare a termine un’impresa condivisa. Il tutto, al di fuori di ogni ufficialità accademica. Insomma una vera e propria concretizzazione di ciò che si definisce network collaborativo. La ricerca, oltre che i risultati dello studio, ha sviluppato un valore aggiunto organizzativo e di cooperazione nel quale il termine bottom-up ha acquisito significato tramite una pratica reale che ha unito Università e società civile/attiva; mondi spesso poco dialoganti la cui relazione crediamo proficua ai fini di una nuova idea di sviluppo e democrazia basata su principi etici e solidali. Oltre che fotografare modelli di spesa, culture critiche del consumo e connotati socio-politici dei Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (GAS), operazione avvenuta tramite una rilevazione per questionario rivolto a un campione significativo di queste realtà e a ogni singolo organizer dei gruppi, l’indagine ha analizzato caratteristiche organizzative e strutture tecniche di un panel di imprese locali eticamente orientate, lungo tutte le specializzazioni produttive che dalle energie rinnovabili, passano per il software open source e conducono al biologico alimentare. Questo secondo step di ricerca è stato realizzato per mezzo di interviste in profondità a 50 aziende. Infine il lavoro, attraverso la realizzazione di 4 focus group a livello provinciale, ha cercato di verificare rapporto e domande istituzionali di cui GAS e produttori eticamente orientati sono portatori nei confronti dei locali livelli di governo, onde migliorare organizzazione e performance di queste nuove e alternative economie territoriali
The experience of microfinance in Albanian agriculture.
No full textLeft totally unchanged with land reforms starting and consolidating the alleged smallholding venture of around 1 hectares with low external inputs and labor intensive technology Albanian farming is characterized as being a self sufficient agricultural model. Over the past decade Albania opened its doors to the market economy but that process seems not to have extended and embraced the rural economy. Why? The hypothesis is that land reform effects did not endure and filter through due to typical market inelasticity, along with a strong pillar of this peasant household’s equilibrium: farm structure consolidation during Albanian transition is a peculiar part-time smallholding venture which could be labelled “translational part-time farm”. This subject doesn’t demand credits to purchase land orienting itself toward the market. It demands credit to strengthen its own self-consumption-oriented structure. So the aim of this paper is to consider why the analyzed micro-credit system would contain elements of sustainable development dynamics in Albanian rural environment
The case of Solidarity Purchasing Groups in the Marche Region, Italy
Full text linkThe article illustrates selected results of an exploratory research study on ‘GAS movement’ coordinated by the Solidarity Economy Network in Marche Region, Italy. The GAS experience proves to revolve substantially around food purchasing groups practice. Therefore, the research aimed at investigating the economic and eco-logical determinants characterising the world of critical food consumption. Qualitative and quantitative data have been analysed from a socio-economic and ecological point of view, providing an insight on different issues concerning the framework of the solidarity economy and possible further developments. The ecological performance of a “critical food consume” in comparison with a “conventional one” was assessed using the Material Input Per Service unit (MIPS) concept.
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