This case study will focus on the comparison between the development of structure and strategy in the Spanish fruit and vegetable producing areas of Almería and Valencia. These two regions are assumed to have gone through different developments in term of the structure and strategy that fruit...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between community-owned enterprises and social capital in urban neighbourhoods. Focussing on community-owned pubs (COPs), the paper investigates how social capital elements have a role in generating these innovative organizations, which...

The international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons - Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy” was held on November 6th-8th 2019 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon (Portugal). Its aim was to promote dialogue and exchanges of knowledge and...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza in che modo i beni culturali e, più specificamente, i beni storico-archeologici possano rappresentare un potente driver di sviluppo locale. Se gestiti dalla comunità locale nella quale sono collocati attraverso la partecipazione diretta di tutti i soggetti...

In order to foster the competitiveness of the food supply chain, the European Commission is committed to promote and facilitate the restructuring and consolidation of the agricultural sector by encouraging the creation of voluntary agricultural producer organisations. To support the policy...