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CFS 39 - Side event on “Urban-rural challenges: challenges for CFS”

Short food supply chains andCommunity Supported Agriculture

Short supply chainsCommunity Supported Agriculture

Short supply chainsCommunity Supported Agriculture

Local solidarity partnershipsbetween producers and consumers

human relations – self organization - social cohesion

Urgenci: the global coalition of CSA networks

Urgenci: the global coalition of CSA networksConsumers Costituencywithin the CSM-CFS

Urgenci: the global coalition of CSA networksConsumers Costituencywithin the CSM-CFS

10th -12nd October 2012First meeting of European CSA networks120 people - 20 countries

February 2013North America meeting

May 2013Eastern Asia meeting

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

solidarity purchasing groups

direct alternative distribution chains

“Grow It Yourself”

local organic producers markets

“Out Of Our Back Yard” (OOOBY)

etc.

Civil society empoweredlocal food nets

community gardens

allotments

Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

partecipatory breeding

guaranteed access to land and Commons

social enterprises for food processingand distribution

etc.

Andrea Calori - Urgenci

Andrea Calori - Urgenci

A model (and some case study...) Solidarity Economy Districts

CSA = Community Supported Agriculture (groups and networks)

CSA

CSA

CSA CSA

CSA

CSA

Andrea Calori - Urgenci

A model (and some case study...) Solidarity Economy Districts

Fair Trade

Community trusts for land

Energy/mobility Other...

Housing and services Local welfare

CSA

CSA

CSA CSA

CSA

CSA

Participative Guarantee Systems

Ethical finance

CSA = Community Supported Agriculture (groups and networks)

Which frame/contents/roles for urban policies?

Regional governmentsand local authorities:

Spatial planning of suitable landfor producing, distributing

and selling local food

Rights and rules for equality based jobs

Local currencies to decommodifyand to boost local exchange

Local and territorial commerce

Local public procurement,

Participatory budgeting

Support systemsand interfaces

Microcredit and ethical finance

Community managed resources

Time banks and local currencies

Barter and seed exchange

Community land trusts

Community welfare

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Civil society empoweredlocal food nets

Designing territorial complexity + empowering social linksan example in Milan (Italy)

Designing territorial complexity + empowering social linksan example in Milan (Italy)

Immediate prioritiesfor the

Global Strategic Frameworkand CFS

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Price volatility

Land grabbing

Investment in agriculture

Social security(Secure livlihoods)

Right to food accountability

Solidarity economyAlternative economy

Local/territorial economyCommunity based economyPeople centered economy

Resilient economySocial economy

Thinking locally, acting locallyand building global networks,

mapping and visibility

Immediate prioritiesfor the

Global Strategic Frameworkand CFS

Price volatility

Land grabbing

Investment in agriculture

Social security(Secure livlihoods)

Right to food accountability

Andrea CaloriReseau International Urgenci – International Network Urgenci