«Idee per lo sviluppo dell’Irpinia», indagine promossa dal
Centro di Ricerca «Guido Dorso», parte... more «Idee per lo sviluppo dell’Irpinia», indagine promossa dal Centro di Ricerca «Guido Dorso», parte dai più recenti dati, illustra la condizione attuale dell’Irpinia e indica alcune traiettorie per il suo sviluppo. Gli effetti della crisi economica si sono fatti sentire in modo particolarmente accentuato nell’intero Mezzogiorno, ma l’Irpinia dispone di risorse da sfruttare per il rilancio dell’area.
In the context of a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies on more-than-economic motivatio... more In the context of a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies on more-than-economic motivations for farmers' cooperation, this article aims to analyse the tensions and contending views of the cooperative movement in Italy with special attention to the agricultural sector and to the emergence of the new model of social cooperatives in the last decades of the 20th century. We interpret this emergence and its codification in law as the decoupling of more-than-economic motivations of cooperation from the mainstream Italian cooperative sector and their reinstatement in a new, but separate model of social cooperation more closely linked to community-and solidarity-oriented initiatives. The presence of institutional tensions and frictions hints at the fact that cooperatives have a multi-faced nature expressed in the not always easy coexistence of a cooperative economy and a cooperative movement. After the II World War, as Italian cooperatives in general and particularly agricultural cooperatives moved towards a productivist model and a 'competitive market' paradigm, the more-than-economic aspects have continued to inspire movements for social and community economies. In the 1990s the social economy project was appropriated but somehow 'sanitized' by the cooperative movement through the legally sanctioned establishment of social cooperatives and their confinement to specific sections within national cooperative federations. Later on, while the emergence of social cooperatives has had little influence on the functioning and orientation of traditional agricultural cooperatives and federations, the reinstatement of a social function for agriculture has taken place at the much more fluid interface between social cooperation, on the one hand, and civic agriculture movements rooted in alternative food networks and community-oriented initiatives, on the other. It is only recently that the cooperative movement has tried catch up with the new paradigms of alternative agriculture and rural development through the experimentation at regional level of the cooperative di comunit a (community cooperatives), that operate to reaffirm the role of multifunctional and multi-stakeholder cooperatives in rural/territorial development.
For scholars and activists alike, local food is linked to visions of a more equitable, ethical an... more For scholars and activists alike, local food is linked to visions of a more equitable, ethical and sustainable agro-food system. Notwithstanding an apparent unity, local food is mobilized for very different aims including environmental sustainability, the revitalization of rural economies, the reconnection of consumers to agriculture and nature and the promotion of land entitlements for marginalized populations. At the same time, local food has become a crucial element in protectionist and neo-ruralist ideologies that support bounded, defensive spatial strategies. These contradictions point to the limited heuristic value of the 'local food' concept, particularly when decoupled from an explicit attention to the political and power dimensions of the local.
Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food, 2015
This chapter analyzes the histories and strategies of the most prominent advocates of the ‘qualit... more This chapter analyzes the histories and strategies of the most prominent advocates of the ‘quality turn’ in Italian agriculture and traces their evolving — and at times ambiguous — relations with the conventional agro-food system. We focus on a set of actors that emerged at different stages between the 1970s and the 1990s: the organic movement, the ‘‘Campagna Amica’’ foundation promoted by Coldiretti (the largest farmers’ union in the country), Slow Food and the loose but growing network of Solidarity Purchasing Groups (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, GAS). Following Levidow (2014), the ‘alternative’ character of these actors is identified with their rejection of the ‘life sciences’ and ‘decomposability’ paradigms that characterize the dominant agro-food system and their support to an ‘agroecological’ approach and an ‘integral product identity’ paradigm.
... while Ivan Cucco made similar contributions for RHl and the ceramics. He also took all the pu... more ... while Ivan Cucco made similar contributions for RHl and the ceramics. He also took all the published photographs, with the exception of Fig. 20, whichwas taken by Eugenio Monti. (*) More recent contributions have been published online. [1] 87 Page 2. Fig. ...
«Idee per lo sviluppo dell’Irpinia», indagine promossa dal
Centro di Ricerca «Guido Dorso», parte... more «Idee per lo sviluppo dell’Irpinia», indagine promossa dal Centro di Ricerca «Guido Dorso», parte dai più recenti dati, illustra la condizione attuale dell’Irpinia e indica alcune traiettorie per il suo sviluppo. Gli effetti della crisi economica si sono fatti sentire in modo particolarmente accentuato nell’intero Mezzogiorno, ma l’Irpinia dispone di risorse da sfruttare per il rilancio dell’area.
In the context of a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies on more-than-economic motivatio... more In the context of a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies on more-than-economic motivations for farmers' cooperation, this article aims to analyse the tensions and contending views of the cooperative movement in Italy with special attention to the agricultural sector and to the emergence of the new model of social cooperatives in the last decades of the 20th century. We interpret this emergence and its codification in law as the decoupling of more-than-economic motivations of cooperation from the mainstream Italian cooperative sector and their reinstatement in a new, but separate model of social cooperation more closely linked to community-and solidarity-oriented initiatives. The presence of institutional tensions and frictions hints at the fact that cooperatives have a multi-faced nature expressed in the not always easy coexistence of a cooperative economy and a cooperative movement. After the II World War, as Italian cooperatives in general and particularly agricultural cooperatives moved towards a productivist model and a 'competitive market' paradigm, the more-than-economic aspects have continued to inspire movements for social and community economies. In the 1990s the social economy project was appropriated but somehow 'sanitized' by the cooperative movement through the legally sanctioned establishment of social cooperatives and their confinement to specific sections within national cooperative federations. Later on, while the emergence of social cooperatives has had little influence on the functioning and orientation of traditional agricultural cooperatives and federations, the reinstatement of a social function for agriculture has taken place at the much more fluid interface between social cooperation, on the one hand, and civic agriculture movements rooted in alternative food networks and community-oriented initiatives, on the other. It is only recently that the cooperative movement has tried catch up with the new paradigms of alternative agriculture and rural development through the experimentation at regional level of the cooperative di comunit a (community cooperatives), that operate to reaffirm the role of multifunctional and multi-stakeholder cooperatives in rural/territorial development.
For scholars and activists alike, local food is linked to visions of a more equitable, ethical an... more For scholars and activists alike, local food is linked to visions of a more equitable, ethical and sustainable agro-food system. Notwithstanding an apparent unity, local food is mobilized for very different aims including environmental sustainability, the revitalization of rural economies, the reconnection of consumers to agriculture and nature and the promotion of land entitlements for marginalized populations. At the same time, local food has become a crucial element in protectionist and neo-ruralist ideologies that support bounded, defensive spatial strategies. These contradictions point to the limited heuristic value of the 'local food' concept, particularly when decoupled from an explicit attention to the political and power dimensions of the local.
Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food, 2015
This chapter analyzes the histories and strategies of the most prominent advocates of the ‘qualit... more This chapter analyzes the histories and strategies of the most prominent advocates of the ‘quality turn’ in Italian agriculture and traces their evolving — and at times ambiguous — relations with the conventional agro-food system. We focus on a set of actors that emerged at different stages between the 1970s and the 1990s: the organic movement, the ‘‘Campagna Amica’’ foundation promoted by Coldiretti (the largest farmers’ union in the country), Slow Food and the loose but growing network of Solidarity Purchasing Groups (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, GAS). Following Levidow (2014), the ‘alternative’ character of these actors is identified with their rejection of the ‘life sciences’ and ‘decomposability’ paradigms that characterize the dominant agro-food system and their support to an ‘agroecological’ approach and an ‘integral product identity’ paradigm.
... while Ivan Cucco made similar contributions for RHl and the ceramics. He also took all the pu... more ... while Ivan Cucco made similar contributions for RHl and the ceramics. He also took all the published photographs, with the exception of Fig. 20, whichwas taken by Eugenio Monti. (*) More recent contributions have been published online. [1] 87 Page 2. Fig. ...
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Books by Ivan Cucco
Centro di Ricerca «Guido Dorso», parte dai più recenti
dati, illustra la condizione attuale dell’Irpinia e indica alcune
traiettorie per il suo sviluppo. Gli effetti della crisi
economica si sono fatti sentire in modo particolarmente
accentuato nell’intero Mezzogiorno, ma l’Irpinia dispone di
risorse da sfruttare per il rilancio dell’area.
Papers by Ivan Cucco
Centro di Ricerca «Guido Dorso», parte dai più recenti
dati, illustra la condizione attuale dell’Irpinia e indica alcune
traiettorie per il suo sviluppo. Gli effetti della crisi
economica si sono fatti sentire in modo particolarmente
accentuato nell’intero Mezzogiorno, ma l’Irpinia dispone di
risorse da sfruttare per il rilancio dell’area.