Assessing the Transformative Potential of Food Banks: The Case Study of Magazzini Sociali (Italy)
| Autor: | Mariavaleria Mininni, Claudia Giordano, Giaime Berti |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Berti G., Giordano C., Mininni M. |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Food bank
media_common.quotation_subject food donation 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Plant Science 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences food banks Political science Development economics media_common.cataloged_instance transformative potential Acronym lcsh:Agriculture (General) European union 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 021107 urban & regional planning Redistribution (cultural anthropology) lcsh:S1-972 Food waste Transformative learning food waste Conceptual framework Agronomy and Crop Science Autonomy Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Agriculture, Vol 11, Iss 249, p 249 (2021) Agriculture Volume 11 Issue 3 |
| ISSN: | 2077-0472 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/agriculture11030249 |
| Popis: | Food poverty and/or food insecurity have become a substantial problem in the advanced capitalist world, with growing portions of people struggling to eat healthy food every day. At the same time, just in the European Union (EU), around 88 million tonnes of food waste are generated annually. We call this paradox the “food paradox”. The question is, how to tackle food paradox? Food banks are usually presented as a win–win solution to tackle the food paradox, despite being quite controversial. Indeed, food banks are highly contested because, according to critics, they do not aim to address the structural causes, but rather they only intervene on the effects of the food paradox. This paper develops the PAHS conceptual framework, the acronym of prefiguration, autonomy, hybridization, and scalability, which provides the four categories through which to explore the transformative potential of food surplus redistribution initiatives. The PAHS is adopted to investigate the case study of Magazzini Sociali, a food bank project developed by IoPotentino, a not-for-profit organization operating in Potenza. The results show a good transformative potential of the organization and provide an example of social innovation that can be replicated in other contexts. |
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