A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town

dc.contributor.advisorBattersby, Jane
dc.contributor.advisorHunter, Jo
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Liesl
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T08:08:15Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T08:08:15Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-03-16T09:21:21Z
dc.description.abstractFor the past thirty years, food producers and consumers have initiated alternative food networks (AFNs) because of the perception that the globalising agrifood system is unsustainable, untrustworthy, and untransparent. These alternative strategies for food production and distribution are perceived to be rooted in sustainable, socially-embedded principles. In more recent years, solidarity purchase groups (SPGs) have formed as a distinct type of AFN collaboration that facilitates higher levels of relationships of regard and reciprocity between consumers and producers. The literature of AFNs has largely focussed on AFNs in the global North. There has been far less research focussed on the nature of AFNs in the global South. This research project was undertaken to write a history of an SPG in the global South, in Cape Town, South Africa: The Good Food Club (GFC). The development of the GFC was examined within the context of the global literature on AFNs. Key actors in the GFC, suppliers and members, were interviewed to describe their participation and to discuss the motivations driving their involvement in the GFC. The research explored their values around food production and distribution, and the ways their values have developed or changed over the time of their GFC involvement. Through increased exposure to the food system realities, members have grown in their consciousness as consumers. Members and suppliers expressed desire for connection with each other, for increased embodied knowledge. Members do not believe they will find this this knowledge and connection in the country's corporate retailers. Finally, this research comments the GFC developing similarly to AFNs of the global North, and its consequent limitations as a strategy for the common good of Cape Town.
dc.identifier.apacitationStewart, L. (2021). <i>A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town</i>. (). ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36158en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationStewart, Liesl. <i>"A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town."</i> ., ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36158en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationStewart, L. 2021. A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town. . ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36158en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Master Thesis AU - Stewart, Liesl AB - For the past thirty years, food producers and consumers have initiated alternative food networks (AFNs) because of the perception that the globalising agrifood system is unsustainable, untrustworthy, and untransparent. These alternative strategies for food production and distribution are perceived to be rooted in sustainable, socially-embedded principles. In more recent years, solidarity purchase groups (SPGs) have formed as a distinct type of AFN collaboration that facilitates higher levels of relationships of regard and reciprocity between consumers and producers. The literature of AFNs has largely focussed on AFNs in the global North. There has been far less research focussed on the nature of AFNs in the global South. This research project was undertaken to write a history of an SPG in the global South, in Cape Town, South Africa: The Good Food Club (GFC). The development of the GFC was examined within the context of the global literature on AFNs. Key actors in the GFC, suppliers and members, were interviewed to describe their participation and to discuss the motivations driving their involvement in the GFC. The research explored their values around food production and distribution, and the ways their values have developed or changed over the time of their GFC involvement. Through increased exposure to the food system realities, members have grown in their consciousness as consumers. Members and suppliers expressed desire for connection with each other, for increased embodied knowledge. Members do not believe they will find this this knowledge and connection in the country's corporate retailers. Finally, this research comments the GFC developing similarly to AFNs of the global North, and its consequent limitations as a strategy for the common good of Cape Town. DA - 2021_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Environmental &amp KW - Geographical Science LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2021 T1 - A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town TI - A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36158 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/36158
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationStewart L. A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town. []. ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2021 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36158en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Environmental and Geographical Science
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Science
dc.subjectEnvironmental &amp
dc.subjectGeographical Science
dc.titleA Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMA
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