Raquel Ajates Gonzalez

Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on Europe, this book provides a study of farmers' cooperatives from a social rather than economic perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351216296
• Artikelnr.: 56838432

Autorenporträt

Raquel Ajates Gonzalez is a Researcher at the European Commission-funded GROW Citizens' Observatory led by the University of Dundee, UK. Before that, she worked as a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London, UK, where she also completed her PhD.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing agricultural cooperatives in the context of a failing food
system: context, clashing definitions, principles and typologies 2. Past
and present: the evolution of agricultural cooperatives in Europe from the
1800s to the 21st century 3. Theorising cooperativism and food
sustainability: Disciplinary, thematic and chronological streams 4. Why
methods and theory matter when studying cooperativism and sustainability in
food and farming? From critical approaches to crystalisation 5. Experts'
views on the European policy context: The price of remaining competitive
and certifiying sustainability 6. Country cases - UK and Spain: From
workers' union to the European Union 7. Consolidation of the agricultural
cooperative sector: from Farmway to Mole Valley Farm and Anecoop in the sea
of plastic 8. Emerging models of cooperation in food and farming:
Multi-stakeholder cooperatives 9. Third spaces: Fighting the cooperative
corner and interrogating the alterity of emerging cooperative models 10.
Theoretical implications: a new integrated framework for deconstructing
agricultural cooperatives 11. Conclusions: implications for agricultural
cooperatives, food policy and alternative food initiatives Appendices