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Scientific paper • 2016

Dobrze Co-op – facilitating the transition from niche to mainstream.

By: Jakub Rok, Wojtek Mejor, Nina J. Bąk

About the authors Who are we and what position do we take? Combining the roles of activists, community organizers and co-op members we reflect on our own experience within the organization. Community-engaged research and collaborative building of knowledge for the sake of evaluating successes and failures. About the Co-op A short retrospective on our initiative. Growing from an informal group...

Scientific paper • 2016

Exploring the Food Consumption Patterns of the Local Population on the Greek Island of Samothraki

By: Julia Désirée Huber

The Greek island of Samothraki was food self-sufficient up until the mid 1960s. This paper analyses, from a socio-metabolic perspective, how the changes in Mediterranean food production and consumption have influenced the island’s food consumption patterns over the past 50 years. A food consumption survey was conducted to assess the current food consumption patterns of the local population of...

Scientific paper • 2016

In search for sustainable local food systems: Sociometabolic perspectives

By: Willi Haas, Eva Fraňková, Ines Marco Lafuente, Juan Cadillo Benalcazar, Eneko Garmendia

During the last century, we have witnessed an unprecedented growth in both global food production and associated environmental, social, and economic problems connected to the increasingly industrialized and globalised food production system; projections for the future foresee a continuation of the rising food demand. While sustainable food production is a global challenge, it has an inevitable...

Scientific paper • 2016

Looking for sustainability on local level: Social metabolism of three small-scale organic farms in the Czech Republic

By: Eva Fraňková, Claudio Cattaneo

During the last century, we have witnessed unprecedented growth in both global food production and associated environmental, social, and economic problems connected to the increasingly industrialized, globalised and commodified food production. In reaction, the issues of food security, food sovereignty and, more generally, sustainable food production have gained momentum within the academic...

Scientific paper • 2016

Re-embedding the food economy in food politics

By: Lanka Horstink

Food, whether conceptualised as necessity, system or industry, is central to major social, economic and ecological challenges, both source and solution of wicked problems such as hunger, poverty, and climate change. It has been foundational to economic thinking and policies, from the first complete theory of economics by physiocrats, to classical economics and the sociologies of Marx, Weber and...

Scientific paper • 2016

Unpackaged: factors that drive consumers to package-free retail

By: Hana Hrstkova

Sustainable food systems signal a need to return to local, organic and low footprint food provisions, implying also reduction of waste and packaging. Rather than looking at the waste issue from the post-consumption perspective (approaches that have dominated over the recent decades), this paper attempts to shed more light on the prevention of consumer packaging waste through unpackaged...

Report • 2015

Kitchen for all

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video about the people's kitchen at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.

Report • 2015

Vegetable Cooperative "Rote Beete"

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video about the vegetable cooperative "Rote Beete" and how they grew vegetable for the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.

Report • 2015

Küche für Alle

By: Marc Menningmann

Kurzes Video zur Volxküche auf der Degrowth Konferenz in Leipzig 2014.

Report • 2015

Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete

By: Marc Menningmann

Kurzes Video zur Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete und wie diese für die Degrowth Konferenz in Leipzig 2014 Gemüse angebaut hat.

Report • 2015

Urgent recall - Our food system under review

By: Stephen Devlin, Thomas Dosch, Aniol Esteban, Griffin Carpenter

neweconomics.org: What makes a food system successful? Historically, the criteria have been high output, low prices, and eradication of deficiency diseases. This understanding is outdated and needs redefining. A successful food system is one that delivers high wellbeing, social justice and environmental stewardship. This report identifies eight indicators, illustrating that such a food system...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Versorgungskooperatives Selbstverständnis ... Aktivistin Corinna im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Corinna

Interview mit Aktivistin Corinna im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Und doch funktionierte die Küche, die mit ihren Aufbauten, Bänken und Tischen so etwas wie die leibliche Mitte des Camps darstellte, so unaufwendig und unaufgeregt, wie man es nur erwarten kann, wenn nicht von vornherein mit bitterer Moral und...

Interview • 2015

Permaculture in Ethiopia - Community gardening, agriculture & climate adaption measures

By: Asmelash Dagne

Interview with Asmelash Dagne from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: Small-holding farming and permaculture gardens have something in common: they provide their people with food and they are a self-providing or subsistance economy. Permaculture is also being used to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is helping...

Interview • 2015

Ernährungssouveränität & Klimagerechtigkeit

By: Ludwig Rumetshofer

Interview mit Ludwig Rumetshofer vom Solikon-Kongress für Solidarische Ökonomie und Transformation 2015 in Berlin. Aus dem Programm Die industrielle Landwirtschaft gehört zu den großen Verursachern von Treibhausgasen. Deshalb muss sie sich grundlegend Verändern, aber nicht nur in ihrer Produktionsweise. Die Organisation La Via Campensina setzt sich für eine faire, ökologische und...

Misc • 2015

Food sovereignty and solidarity economy

By: Andrea Ferrante, Ludwig Rumetshofer, Paula Gioia, Paula Gioia, Jocelyn Parot, Judith Hitchman, Jenny Gkiugki, Elizabeth Ritsch-Meyer, Isa Alvarez

Video of the forum "Food sovereignty and solidarity economy" from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: What are the key manifestations and criteria? What are the areas that are shared, and how can they be strengthened? This forum will bring together practitioners, both producers and consumers interested in how food as a human...

Report • 2015

10 Milliarden - Wie werden wir alle satt?

By: Valentin Thurn

Inhalt: Bis 2050 wird die Weltbevölkerung auf zehn Milliarden Menschen anwachsen. Doch wo soll die Nahrung für alle herkommen? Kann man Fleisch künstlich herstellen? Sind Insekten die neue Proteinquelle? Oder baut jeder bald seine eigene Nahrung an? Regisseur, Bestseller-Autor und Food-Fighter Valentin Thurn sucht weltweit nach Lösungen. Auf der Suche nach einer Antwort auf die Frage, wie wir...

Scientific paper • 2014

Food sharing: A potential strategy against the food waste problem and a local contribution to local climate change mitigation?

By: Dominic Egger

Non-market food provision - Transitory strategy - Food waste - Degrowth practice - Municipal strategy of climate change mitigation

Scientific paper • 2014

Between Daily Practices and Political Action

By: Markus Flück

Abstract: My starting point is that the “green revolution” and free trade policies haven’t been successful towards solving hunger problems and might even endanger the nutrition system of the whole human society. On the consumption side, especially in the north, but also in the wealthy social classes in the south, feeding habits need more and more energy and produce too much rubbish. A hopeful...

Scientific paper • 2014

Comparing local and global supply chains of tomatoes: the case of Catalonia

By: Gonzalo Gamboa

Abstract: In recent years there is an increasing interest in studying the performance of the so-called alternative, local or quality food supply chains. Different actors, endorsing different discourses, highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each supply chain according to their interests and their position in the chain (among other reasons). This paper explores the performance of global...

Scientific paper • 2014

Problems of unlimited economic Growth

By: Hugo Hanbury

Degrowth, environment, consumerism, transition, world food system