The Local Food Processing House: a social innovation for rural development in Campania

2017 ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Giovanni Quaranta ◽  
Jane Brandt ◽  
Rosanna Salvia
Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Adanella Rossi ◽  
Mario Coscarello ◽  
Davide Biolghini

The need for a transition to sustainable food systems is widely recognised. Over the last three decades, movements have been demanding and proposing a radical transformation, foregrounding the social values of food. Experiences inspired by solidarity economy have given rise to highly innovative pathways, grounded on the redefinition of the food-related values and practices and the reconstruction of local, community-based food systems by referring to social and ecological sustainability. One can usefully draw from these experiences for identifying challenges, opportunities and benefits and for analysing the most effective modes of action leading to the creation of alternatives. Capturing and supporting this innovation is particularly important when looking at the opportunities offered by local food policies. This significantly involves the meanings, goals and forms that food governance takes on. The paper aims at investigating these aspects, reading the initiatives inspired by SE principles as an example of social innovation. Their engagement in re-signifying food in terms of “commons” and in “commoning” food systems constitutes a complementary key of analysis. Focusing on the Italian context, the paper draws on many years of qualitative research and direct involvement in these initiatives. The analysis provides useful insights about the potential for change existing in society and invites us to develop reflexivity on how local food policies capture the opportunity for a re-politicisation of food-related issues.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Rudiati Evi Masithoh ◽  
Heni Kusumawati

Community may be involved in food security program by utilizing local based food materials in their surrounding areas. Potency of local food in Indonesia can be used as an alternative for the staple food. Te huge number of housewives in Yogyakarta can support the family economy or reduce the household budget through the use of local food sources. Tis community service activities aiemed at providing an understanding of processing technology of non-rice and non wheat food resources to be utilized to achieve food security and improve household economy. Outcomes of this activity are non-rice food products as carbohydrates source and non - grain food diversifcation, an improved understanding of food processing technology, as well as increased understanding of marketing and entrepreneurship.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Courtney ◽  
John Powell

The quest for innovation lies at the heart of European rural development policy and is integral to the Europe 2020 strategy. While social innovation has become a cornerstone of increased competitiveness and the rural situation legitimizes public intervention to encourage innovation, the challenges of its effective evaluation are compounded by the higher ‘failure’ rate implied by many traditional performance measures. Social Return on Investment (SROI) is employed to assess the social innovation outcomes arising from implementation of Axes 1 and 3 of the 2007-13 Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). Analysis of primary data gathered through structured face-to-face interviews from a weighted sample of 196 beneficiaries reveal that social innovation outcomes generate a total of £170.02 million of benefits from Axis 1 support measures, compared to £238.1 million of benefits generated from innovation outcomes from Axis 3 measures. Benefits are generated through four social innovation outcome categories: individual, operational, relational, and system; and range from changes in attitudes and behaviour to institutional change and new ways of structuring social relations. The paper calls for more comprehensive evaluation approaches that can capture, and value, the multiple benefits arising from social innovation, and further bespoke applications of SROI to help develop and legitimise innovation indicators that will enable stronger linkages back into the policy process.


1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1580-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel K. Marfo ◽  
Benjamin K. Simpson ◽  
Johnson S. Idowu ◽  
Olusegun L. Oke
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2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Arabska

Abstract The current study discusses the role and the importance of alternative food networks, farmers’ markets in particular, for sustainable rural development through the example of Bulgaria. Farmers’ markets are considered as a sustainable business model of networking which encourages production and consumption of local food of healthy origin adhering to high standards for quality and safety, building society and trust and encouraging development of rural regions. The case of Bulgaria is scrutinized in the context of the support for local food and short supply chains anticipated under the national rural development programme for the period 2014–2020 and the current state-of-art and capacities of available farmers’ markets. Some good practices are analyzed and presented establishing a new type of relationships between producers and consumers of farm products proving that farmers’ markets could be efficient incubators of local businesses and new relationships with end-users. Conclusions are made on nature, objectives and functioning of farmers’ markets, challenges and problems in their promotion, support and encouragement.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kailash Chandra Mishra

On the basis of a micro level study for Puri district in Odisha, this paper finds that the Self Help Groups (SHGs) have played a positive and significant role in generation of employment and income of its members engaged in different economic activities such as commercial farming, pisciculture, food processing, trade and commerce, household industry and agriculture. The members are found to have a change in the quality of their lives. Promotion of SHGs therefore, not only helps foster rural development but also go a long way in attaining inclusive growth in India.


Author(s):  
Dovilė VALIŪNĖ

Social innovation is very important for rural development. It is a lack of researchers about an individual level of social innovations in Lithuania. Adolescents’ aggression is an important social problem that can affect society and social innovations. It needs to find the differences in aggression between rural and urban adolescents because it could help to plan effective interventions for reducing aggressive behavior. The present study aimed to assess the aggression among rural and urban adolescents. It was hypothesized that rural and urban adolescents differ significantly on aggression. In order to verify the above hypothesis a sample of 479 (207 boys; 272 girls) students were selected from Lithuanian schools. The sample includes the similar size of rural (N=242) and urban (N=237) students. The age of participants was from 12 to 17. It was used Aggression Questionnaire developed by Buss and Perry (1992) in this research. The questionnaire involves four subscales: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. The results showed that urban girls had more physical aggression than rural girls. However, it was not found statistically significant differences in physical aggression among urban and rural boys. Also, it was not found any statistically significant differences in verbal aggression, anger, hostility among urban and rural adolescents.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Miftakhur Rohmah ◽  
Anton Rahmadi ◽  
Uni W Sagena

<p>The aim of this community service is to increase the community's women creativity PKK group in Talisayan District Berau, East Kalimantan driven in processing local food resources, fisheries and agriculture. However, so far the produce is only sold in fresh form in simple and traditional way so that during this pandemic period this activity has been hampered. Solutive efforts are being made to increase creativity and optimize abundant food products of fish and corn through modernization of technology and processing methods so that they can be marketed outside the region in order to increase community income. The community service method carried out is in the form of training and mentoring for PKK groups to be more creative, innovative, and skilled in processing food safely and attractively so that it has a high selling value. Safe, secure, and attractive food processing can increase product durability, maintain its nutritional content, safe for consumer health, and can boost marketing, even have the potential to export abroad. The resulting output is the application of technology and increasing the quality, quantity and added value of processed food products thanks to the creativity and skills of the community in processing local food of Talisayan. Another output is the establishment of centers for food processing quality driven by women in PKK groups. This is where the role of academics and partners in the local community is needed to work together as a concern and service for the sake of increasing income of the community.</p>


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