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Bringing together citizens, small farmers, consumers, activists and concerned political actors at global level through an alternative economic approach called Local Solidarity-based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers.
It is a way of maintaining and developing small-scale organic family farming and of achieving local food sovereignty for each region and community worldwide.
URGENCI wants to vigorously promote all forms of partnership between producers and local consumers, all kinds of Community Supported Agriculture initiatives, as a solution to the problems associated with global intensive agricultural production and distribution.
Farmers alone have been shouldering the risks of the increasingly ruthless global market, which has forced millions of them from the land. Community-Supported agriculture offers one of the most hopeful alternatives to the downward spiral, and is the only model of farming in which consumers deliberately agree to share the risks and benefits with farmers.
It take many different forms in the various parts of the world, based on the social, historical, geopolitical, agricultural and economic specificities of each country or region where they have developed. The members of URGENCI are however united in their belief in the following 4 fundamental ideas
Partnership: This partnership is characterised by a mutual commitment to supply (by the peasants) and up-take (by the consumers) of the food produced during each season.
Local: this means promoting local exchange. LSPCCs are part of an active approach to relocalising the economy.
Solidarity: partnerships are based on solidarity between actors and involves:
Sharing both the risks and the benefits of healthy production that is adapted to the natural rhythm of the seasons and is respectful of the environment, natural and cultural heritage and health.
Paying a sufficient fair price up-front to enable peasants and their families to live in a dignified manner.
The producer/consumer tandem: is based on direct person-to-person contact and trust, with no intermediaries or hierarchy and no subordination.
It is the absolute respect and implementation of these four fundamental principles by URGENCI members that forms the basis for more general values.
The values of the network
Fairness, Solidarity, Reciprocity, and especially commitment to fair, stable prices and risk-sharing of agricultural production.
Each producer-consumer partnership is independent.
URGENCI aims to develop overall coherence at and between local, regional, national and global levels of projects to emphasize the relevant contribution of Community Supported Agriculture to a sustainable and inclusive world.
3 Videos | 5 pedagogical tools | One proposal | 7 case studies | 4 Analyses/working papers/articles | One public contribution
3 Videos
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So, you’re starting a CSA or box scheme in a pandemic
April 2020
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June 2019
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Akdeniz Agroekoloji Buluşması/Mediterranean LSP’s for Agroecology (5-8 October 2017)
November 2018
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5 pedagogical tools
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The CSA farmer to farmer booklet
September 2019
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Learn the skills, gain the knowledge, Be part of CSA
August 2019
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Be Part of CSA! Supporting Booklet for Training on Community Supported Agriculture
December 2016
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EATHINK, PENSER GLOBAL, MANGER LOCAL.
Manuel d’éducation à l’alimentation durable à destination des enseignants.
2015
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European Handbook on Community Supported Agriculture
September 2013
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One proposal
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Cahier de propositions URGENCI – janvier 2012.
January 2012
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7 case studies
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Nekasarea: um coletivo basco ao serviço da luta quotidiana para a soberania alimenta
Uma rede de produtores e de consumidores organizados além de uma agricultura apoiada pela comunidade
Jocelyn Parot, December 2010
Boletim Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local Sustentavel, Urgenci
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Nekasarea: a Basque network serving the everyday struggle for Food Sovereignty
A network of consumers and producers organized beyond community supported agriculture (CSA)
Jocelyn Parot, December 2010
International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development, Urgenci
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Nekasarea: un colectivo vasco al servicio de la lucha diaria de la soberanía alimentaria.
Una red de consumidores y productores organizados mas alla de una agricultura sostenida por la comunidad
Jocelyn Parot, December 2010
Boletin Internacional de Desarrollo Local Sustentable, Urgenci
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Nekasarea: un collectif basque au service de la lutte quotidienne pour la souveraineté alimentaire
Un réseau de producteurs et de consommateurs organisés au-delà du modèle des AMAP
Jocelyn Parot, December 2010
Bulletin International de Développement Local Durable, Urgenci
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El alimento y la agricultura apoyados por la Comunidad
El Simposio de la Red Urgenci International Network, Kobé (Japón), abril 2010
Judith Hitchman, April 2010
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Community supported foods and farming
The Urgenci International Network, Kobe Conference April 2010
Judith Hitchman, April 2010
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La nourriture et l’agriculture soutenue par la Communauté
Symposium du Réseau Urgenci International Network, Kobé (Japon) avril 2010
Judith Hitchman, April 2010
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4 Analyses/working papers/articles
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Policy Report : Roots of Resilience.. Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe.
Nyéléni, February 2021
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2018
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Eating from the Farm: the social, environmental, and economic benefits of local food systems
Friends of the Earth and Urgenci, May 2016
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Overview of Community Supported Agriculture in Europe
AA.VV., May 2016
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One public contribution
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The World of Community Supported Agriculture
Keynote for Urgenci Kobe Conference 2010
Elisabeth Henderson, February 2010
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