Chuinti13 economías de los bc y agricultura urbana

Ángel Calle [email protected]

University of Cordoba

Institute of Sociology and Rural StudiesInstituto de Sociología y Estudios Campesinos (ISEC)

Universidad de Córdoba

XII Annual Conference on Territorial Intelligence, 21st-22nd November 2013, (C3IT-UHU)

Cooperative and common logics within the food and agriculture sector

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Emergent phenomena

New actorsProduction and consume networksUrban agriculture15 M

LimitsClimate changePost-Fossil eraMegalopolis

LegitimaciesFood crisisPolitic disaffectionCity and Wellness



Impacts that grow in the global food and agriculture system

Kilometric foodsBig distributors

Dispersed citiesUniversal architecture and tastes

Delocation of social and economic relationships Consume as an identity

Global “satisfactors”Fragile and far from the

citizens

Big chemical supplies agriculture and loss of

biodiversity

Overview of the resources management issue:The government of common goods

According to Elinor Ostrom (page 13): The collective management of resources would involve that local users have agreements on:

Limit definition,

Conflict resolution mechanisms,

Monitoring plans,

Suitable graded sanctions

And their own rules regarding other design principles

OTHER ISSUES: Self-diagnosis, bottom-up nested organizations,

¿political and cultural context?

Critic to the liberal profecies about the drama of common goods. For them:

• Nothing is sustainable without assignation and private benefit• The Government can impose rules but they are unefficient• There is no possibility of having collective economic institutions

Initiatives: More sustainable territories(Transition Towns)


The post-fossil era arrives The relationship between country and city will change Forced energetic relocations and transitions

Create communities to close the circles of needs and resources

Small cities or towns: communitarian, politic and economic reorganization

Soft technologies, endogenous resourcesThe trend will be self-sufficiency

→ Political ecologism, degrowth, post-developmentCommunitarian uses


Initiatives: More sustainable territoriesAgroecology and food sovereignty


Local agriculture and food systems Rethink about the essential needs from cities:

agroalimentary municipalization Public politics, social crops and planning of an

agroecologic transition

Close bottom-up circles Rosario, Havana, Montevideo: distribution of 70% vegetables:

Markets and social consume through a network of vegetable gardens Brazil: direct selling, SPG, Organizations that support local consume

Purchase Law: 30% local (and organic) for social programs Spain: 6.000 personas consume cooperatives, ¿agricultural ecologic parks?

→ Consume review; kilometric foods, rethink essential needs, participation


PROSUMERSDOMESTIC DEMOCRACY

COOPERATIVE WORKSELFMANAGEMENT

SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACE

SYSTEMS TO GUARANTEE PARTICIPATION

TERRITORY

Common Goods EconomiesSocial Markets

Employment, Economy → Human needs Network, participation → Social democratixation, access, labourEnvironmental goods→ Sustainability, TerritoryCooperative goods→ Socioeconomic institutions

Social economies and Common Goods economies

Collaborative Consume

Common Goods Economies

Communitarianuses

Market cooperatives

Supportive and caring economy

Gift economiesCooperative circulation

Pillaging economiesAutoritay circulation

SustainabilityTerritory

High metabolism

PopularPopulares(informal)

*Ostrom*Ecs Superv (Shiva)*Ecs Indígenas (Núñez)*Transition cities

*Feminist economy (Quiroga, Yayo H.)*Gift Economy*Supportive economies(Coraggio)

*Feminist breaking economies(Orozco)*Social and cooperative economies (Riech, Negri)*Local economies*Degrowth*New social cooperativism

*Caillé, French School

*Coraggio, Guerra Marques, Singer, Latin American School

Social economies and Common Goods economies

Collaborative Consume

Common Goods Economies

Communitarianuses

Market cooperatives

Supportive and caring economy

Gift economiesCooperative circulation

Pillaging economiesAuthoritarian circulation

SustainabilityTerritory

High metabolism

PopularPopulares(informal)

Activity Employment Democratization Environmental goods

Cooperative goods

Prosumers

La Tejedora, CO Social market 4 employments y 2 volunteers20 people in comissionsNetwork of producers and artisans

Assambly of 150 partners Espacio de autogestión socialRegulación consensuada de precios

Local production, mostly ecologicWork with related cooperatives

Opening of a market in the city centre. Ballroom for cultural and political activities.

Red Productores-Consumidores, CO

Comerciali-zation

Volunteers in 6 groups, organising 60 people and 20 producers

Certificación social de la cadena de comercialización según criterios de proximidad y ambientalesAsamblea

Priority to local and ecologic consumption

Availability of an exchange space

La Acequia, CO Agroecologiccooperative

1 employment Volunteer in tasks and cooperative management

Grupos que se organizan a través de una asamblea de enlace

Selfconsume circuit, ecologic production, recovery of seeds

Disponibilidad de un espacio de autogestión para circuitos de cortos de producción y consumo

Som Energía, grupos de Andalucía

Renewable energies

Partners cooperative Asamblea general, comisiones de trabajo y grupos locales de difusión

Renewable energies sources

Cooperation conditions between producers and consumers for the development of clean energies

Guifi.net, SE Telecom operator

Dinamizing nucleus, there is Foundation

Proyecto colaborativo, personas e instituciones

Open network for linkbuildin on the Internet

Goteo.org (Andalucía)

Financiation, crowdfunding

Dinamizing nucleus Participación directa en el apoyo a proyectos que se ofertan vía internet

Access to direct credits through projects on the Internet

Employment is not the same as before….

Employment is more and more:

*Dispersion: delocation, outsourcing, uncontrolled autonomy

*Increasing precarity: insecurities and anxieties in work; working poor

*Elitization: in benefits, control, unemployment; development of unsocial techonologies need for employability

*Destruction: intensive in materials, energies, territorial impacts

*Invisibilization: employment demands working in cares that remains hiden, out of social and environmental rights.

*Saturation: We buy all the time, we are connected, we relate ourselves within the market

*Dehumanization: corrosion in links, production of superfluous things and relations which don’t satisfy human needs.

Castillo y otros 2013, Sennet 2000, Orozco 2006, Sassen 2007, Riechmann 2013

Another employment

Beyond consume

Beyond employment

Beyond the neoliberal state

Beyond income

Common goods economiesDegrowth

21 hoursPromote social economies

Recognise caring works

Basic incomeSocioeconomical rights

DesmercantilizarEssential needs

How employment could be?Proposals and practices

Common goods economies are the result of:

‘SATISFACTORS’ CRISISUNDESIRABLE NEW CONTEXTS

‘Old politics’ vs new social cooperativism

Global neoliberal Economic crisis

Fragmented/ing unsustainable territorial designs

Difussion NTIC

Saturated civilization

Employment and Economy contradict welfare

Little green islands(Scale) Little

red stove(intensity)

Black holes(impact)

Croops, economies and social movements: Challenges

Ángel Calle [email protected]

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Thank you!

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”

Albert Einstein

Common goods and sustainable economies

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Chuinti13 economías de los bc y agricultura urbana