Aims of Presentation:
Part1: To present some of Prof Beckert’s ideas about the social order and coordinating ‘problems’ inherent in market exchange.
Ask: Can Beckert’s ideas be adapted so that they are useful for observing environmental outcomes from rural markets? In this case the environmental mission is conceptualised as orchard biosphere conservation.
Part 2: Explore that question with recourse to research on some German social enterprises, ie. I will attempt the leap.
Dan Keech's presentation at a meeting of the Bath and North East Somerset Local Food Partnership. This is the multi-stakeholder network which oversees the implementation of the council's Local Food Strategy. The strategy combines work on public health, food and agriculture sector development and the environmental footprint of the food chain. More information about Dan can be found at: http://www.ccri.ac.uk/keech/
Some reflections and future directions for research’ and arguements that we need to reposition short food chain activities beyond the ‘rural local’/value-added market-based model that they are more commonly associated with.
Nigel Curry's presentation at the CCRI seminar Series of 16 January 2014 looking at Innovation and the source of previous knowledges and practices as a basis for this, including results from ESRC funded Grey and Pleasant Land project and EU FP7 funded SOLINSA project.
Most rivers have sacred personifications – in the form of tutelary deities. For the River Severn, this is ‘Sabrina’, or ‘Hafren’ in Welsh]. The project will seek to expand and deepen the ways in which water landscapes are encountered and understood – scientifically, artistically and socially.
Layers of industry, agriculture, vegetation, soil, rock and water make up the territory of the Severn Estuary. Cultural layers of prehistory, history and story and myth are enduring sources of conjecture. All of these – together with the human and non-human communities – fuse to form the ecology of the estuary, which has the second-largest tidal range in the world. This residency project will initiate new conversations and involvements by developing film/sound/music-based artworks, extracting some of the hidden and intangible essences of this water landscape.
As Artist In Residence, Antony Lyons will also draw on his own extensive previous work on water environment themes (pollution, climate-change, biodiversity, working water communities etc.), and link into CCRI research streams relating to ecosystem services, water/food security, landscape and community issues.
Overall aim:
develop a methodology to improve understanding of the systemic and other factors influencing impacts arising from the implementation of regulatory change
Objectives:
Understand the form and magnitude of errors in current impact assessments
Identify potential improvements in the general methodology in order to reduce errors
Develop a framework methodology for the conduct of ex-post assessment of regulations
Dr Damian Maye presented a paper at the International M.bovis conference in Cardiff about farmer confidence in badger vaccination to control the spread of bTB from badgers to cattle
Dan Keech's presentation at a meeting of the Bath and North East Somerset Local Food Partnership. This is the multi-stakeholder network which oversees the implementation of the council's Local Food Strategy. The strategy combines work on public health, food and agriculture sector development and the environmental footprint of the food chain. More information about Dan can be found at: http://www.ccri.ac.uk/keech/
Some reflections and future directions for research’ and arguements that we need to reposition short food chain activities beyond the ‘rural local’/value-added market-based model that they are more commonly associated with.
Nigel Curry's presentation at the CCRI seminar Series of 16 January 2014 looking at Innovation and the source of previous knowledges and practices as a basis for this, including results from ESRC funded Grey and Pleasant Land project and EU FP7 funded SOLINSA project.
Most rivers have sacred personifications – in the form of tutelary deities. For the River Severn, this is ‘Sabrina’, or ‘Hafren’ in Welsh]. The project will seek to expand and deepen the ways in which water landscapes are encountered and understood – scientifically, artistically and socially.
Layers of industry, agriculture, vegetation, soil, rock and water make up the territory of the Severn Estuary. Cultural layers of prehistory, history and story and myth are enduring sources of conjecture. All of these – together with the human and non-human communities – fuse to form the ecology of the estuary, which has the second-largest tidal range in the world. This residency project will initiate new conversations and involvements by developing film/sound/music-based artworks, extracting some of the hidden and intangible essences of this water landscape.
As Artist In Residence, Antony Lyons will also draw on his own extensive previous work on water environment themes (pollution, climate-change, biodiversity, working water communities etc.), and link into CCRI research streams relating to ecosystem services, water/food security, landscape and community issues.
Overall aim:
develop a methodology to improve understanding of the systemic and other factors influencing impacts arising from the implementation of regulatory change
Objectives:
Understand the form and magnitude of errors in current impact assessments
Identify potential improvements in the general methodology in order to reduce errors
Develop a framework methodology for the conduct of ex-post assessment of regulations
Dr Damian Maye presented a paper at the International M.bovis conference in Cardiff about farmer confidence in badger vaccination to control the spread of bTB from badgers to cattle
Connecting with top bloggers made easyToni Roberts
This document provides a 3-step process for driving traffic by connecting with top bloggers. The steps are to 1) create and share your story openly to build credibility, 2) produce unique and entertaining content to show bloggers you deserve their attention, and 3) find creative ways to authentically and consistently engage top bloggers. Following these steps can help one take the blogosphere by storm and drive traffic.
This document outlines an evaluation of the Water and Integrated Local Delivery (WILD) project in the Cotswolds and Swindon area of the UK. The WILD project aims to improve river ecosystems through partnerships between farmers, local communities, and agencies. It is led by the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and evaluates the impact of integrated local delivery on enhancing ecosystem resilience. The evaluation found evidence that the project engaged stakeholders, improved communication and knowledge, and helped tackle multi-layer challenges at the local level. However, it also found that facilitators and government agencies need to give local partners more independence. The project implications include the need for government agencies to better integrate issues like water, flooding, and biodiversity, as well
Presentation given by Janet Dwyer to the Exmoor Hill Farming Network. Slides summarize work conducted by the CCRI in assessing the state of farming in Exmoor.
This document summarizes a research project on farmers' risk perceptions of climate change. The project aims to assess how UK farmers form perceptions of climate change risks and how those perceptions relate to risk mitigation actions. The researcher conducted a literature review finding little prior research on UK farmers. A conceptual framework was developed using a "cultural-behavioral" theory to understand decision-making. Methods included analyzing climate data and newspaper reports. Next steps are to analyze newspapers using qualitative data software and conduct preliminary interviews with farmers.
This document outlines a 3-episode series exploring arguments for and against the existence of God from different perspectives. Episode 1 examines William Paley's clock analogy argument and interviews various people's views on God. Episode 2 looks at explanations of God from religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam as well as Descartes' perspective. Episode 3 features interviews with people who have had religious experiences and presents more statistics and quotes regarding belief in God. The series aims to get viewers thinking critically about the question of God's existence through examining philosophical, statistical, and personal viewpoints.
The document examines the potential impacts of climate change on historic environment assets in Wales. It predicts changes such as warmer and wetter winters resulting in more flooding, along with hotter and drier summers. These changes could negatively impact historic buildings, archaeological sites, landscapes and parks through flooding, erosion, pest migration and stress on plants. The severity and significance of impacts varies and some opportunities from a longer growing season are also discussed. Adaptation strategies to address risks and opportunities from climate change are proposed.
2013 Nonprofit Seminar - Conducted by Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, along with the Center for Nonprofits and Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
This document discusses a trial to address high levels of the pesticide metaldehyde found in local water sources. Metaldehyde concentrations exceed legal limits, requiring expensive treatment. The trial aims to investigate how different land management practices impact metaldehyde use and concentrations. Farmers' participation and feedback is sought to help monitor practices and pesticide application, in order to better understand solutions to prevent metaldehyde from contaminating drinking water supplies. Next steps include finalizing sampling locations and frequency to evaluate the effectiveness of various catchment management approaches.
Assignment 4 my three topics for documentrayjodiefoster96
Jodie Foster-Pilia is producing a documentary and has identified several potential topics: Does God exist?, Subliminal messages on television, and Is advanced technology an advantage or disadvantage. She conducted interviews about these topics with 6 people ranging in age from 11 to 45. Based on the interviews and her own interests, Jodie is leaning towards exploring the topic "Does God exist?" for her documentary as it seems to generate a strong debate and she feels knowledgeable about issues relating to God from her philosophy studies.
The document summarizes changes to health care law and policies resulting from the Affordable Care Act and other regulations. Key points include:
- The employer mandate was delayed until 2015 to allow employers more time to comply. Other ACA provisions like the individual mandate and health insurance exchanges remain on schedule.
- Reporting requirements for employers were also delayed until 2015 but employers are still encouraged to report health coverage information in 2014. Requirements like providing a summary of benefits to employees remain in effect.
- Small business tax credits of up to 50% of premium costs were introduced to encourage small businesses to offer health insurance to employees.
- Payment reforms aim to increase Medicaid rates for primary care physicians and provide bonuses for
Presentation at the 2014 annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, held in London on August 27th-29th.
The paper provided an analysis of farmer knowledge networks in relation to bovine TB and argues that understandings of farmers’ knowledge networks relating to animal disease control are weak. TB is used as a case study and scenario analysis to determine the networks that farmers would draw upon in particular situations. The research team developed four different scenarios to control TB in the future: a badger cull in hot spot areas, an oral badger vaccine, a cattle vaccine, and a range of measures. The findings confirmed the importance of certain so-called ‘influencers’, such as private vets and the NFU, as well as Defra. The influence of other farmers is also notable but the findings raise interesting questions about how farmers are influenced by their peers – typically more to compare practise / reactions than to obtain information. At the end of the paper these specific findings are related to more general questions about the merits of using scenarios and influence maps to inform TB and other complex policy areas and wider debates about ‘stakeholdership’ and ‘partnership’ governance.
This study focuses on exploring the relationship between experience of climate change (flooding) and response to climate change amongst farmers in Gloucestershire. Findings from a postal survey with farmers, and follow up interviews are discussed and conclusions offered.
The document discusses developments in environmental policy, the attractions of integrated delivery approaches, and lessons learned from a pilot catchment project in the Upper Thames region. Key points include: current policy emphasizes more integrated, landscape-scale approaches; integrating work could help share burdens, maximize outcomes, and increase involvement; the Water Framework Directive requires improved waterbody management and a catchment focus; and the pilot aimed to integrate existing work through collaboration but determining roles and long-term impact requires more time.
Dr. Frances Harris from Centre for Earth and Environmental Sciences Research, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at Kingston University - with areview of approaches to knowledge co-production focused on food, water, energy and environment.
This talk sets out Gwenda’s PhD which is just getting underway. It was presenteed at Workshop 3 of the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and AHRC Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme; ‘“Between the Tides”. Comparative arts and humanities approaches to living with(in) intertidal landscapes in UK & the Netherlands. Learning from those who live and work with complexity, change and fragility’ on 23rd Oct “103 in Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol UK.
The project is led by Dr Owain Jones of CCRI with Dr. Bettina van Hoven Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Gwenda’s PhD is one of the exciting outcomes of this research network.
The document summarizes a conference on new directions in rural policy held in Gloucester on September 27th, 2012. It discusses limitations of past rural policies related to sustainable development, the rural economy, agriculture, land use planning and rural communities. It also outlines priorities from a September 2012 Rural Statement including economic growth, rural engagement and quality of life, with broadband identified as a higher priority than transport.
This document summarizes a presentation on ethics for social workers and attorneys. It discusses key differences in their roles, with social workers focused on clients' overall circumstances and attorneys advocating for individual clients' expressed wishes. The presentation covers ethics rules around competence and confidentiality that are important for both professions. It also explains when social workers should refer clients to attorneys, such as for legal advice regarding estate planning, guardianship, and Medicaid eligibility. The presenters are experts in elder law who provide their contact information.
The ValueLinks methodology is used to analyze value chains, develop upgrading strategies and plans, and facilitate collaborative action. It involves selecting a value chain, conducting strategic analysis, and implementing plans to address constraints. Training and capacity building are important to apply the methodology. Workshops introduce the approach to stakeholders and develop skills of practitioners, trainers, and facilitators. Networks help share experience and institutionalize the knowledge in countries.
A Brief Overview of Wealth Creation and Value Chainsruralsupport
The document discusses building sustainable livelihoods through a wealth creation approach focused on rural value chains. It proposes assessing value chains based on their ability to generate seven forms of wealth: social, natural, political, intellectual, built, individual, and financial capital. Interventions aim to collaboratively build multiple types of wealth through activities like training, grants, and events. Progress is measured using indicators for each form of wealth. The role of intermediaries is to facilitate communication, foster investment, and hold a system-wide view of building sustainable rural livelihoods through value chains.
Connecting with top bloggers made easyToni Roberts
This document provides a 3-step process for driving traffic by connecting with top bloggers. The steps are to 1) create and share your story openly to build credibility, 2) produce unique and entertaining content to show bloggers you deserve their attention, and 3) find creative ways to authentically and consistently engage top bloggers. Following these steps can help one take the blogosphere by storm and drive traffic.
This document outlines an evaluation of the Water and Integrated Local Delivery (WILD) project in the Cotswolds and Swindon area of the UK. The WILD project aims to improve river ecosystems through partnerships between farmers, local communities, and agencies. It is led by the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and evaluates the impact of integrated local delivery on enhancing ecosystem resilience. The evaluation found evidence that the project engaged stakeholders, improved communication and knowledge, and helped tackle multi-layer challenges at the local level. However, it also found that facilitators and government agencies need to give local partners more independence. The project implications include the need for government agencies to better integrate issues like water, flooding, and biodiversity, as well
Presentation given by Janet Dwyer to the Exmoor Hill Farming Network. Slides summarize work conducted by the CCRI in assessing the state of farming in Exmoor.
This document summarizes a research project on farmers' risk perceptions of climate change. The project aims to assess how UK farmers form perceptions of climate change risks and how those perceptions relate to risk mitigation actions. The researcher conducted a literature review finding little prior research on UK farmers. A conceptual framework was developed using a "cultural-behavioral" theory to understand decision-making. Methods included analyzing climate data and newspaper reports. Next steps are to analyze newspapers using qualitative data software and conduct preliminary interviews with farmers.
This document outlines a 3-episode series exploring arguments for and against the existence of God from different perspectives. Episode 1 examines William Paley's clock analogy argument and interviews various people's views on God. Episode 2 looks at explanations of God from religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam as well as Descartes' perspective. Episode 3 features interviews with people who have had religious experiences and presents more statistics and quotes regarding belief in God. The series aims to get viewers thinking critically about the question of God's existence through examining philosophical, statistical, and personal viewpoints.
The document examines the potential impacts of climate change on historic environment assets in Wales. It predicts changes such as warmer and wetter winters resulting in more flooding, along with hotter and drier summers. These changes could negatively impact historic buildings, archaeological sites, landscapes and parks through flooding, erosion, pest migration and stress on plants. The severity and significance of impacts varies and some opportunities from a longer growing season are also discussed. Adaptation strategies to address risks and opportunities from climate change are proposed.
2013 Nonprofit Seminar - Conducted by Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, along with the Center for Nonprofits and Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
This document discusses a trial to address high levels of the pesticide metaldehyde found in local water sources. Metaldehyde concentrations exceed legal limits, requiring expensive treatment. The trial aims to investigate how different land management practices impact metaldehyde use and concentrations. Farmers' participation and feedback is sought to help monitor practices and pesticide application, in order to better understand solutions to prevent metaldehyde from contaminating drinking water supplies. Next steps include finalizing sampling locations and frequency to evaluate the effectiveness of various catchment management approaches.
Assignment 4 my three topics for documentrayjodiefoster96
Jodie Foster-Pilia is producing a documentary and has identified several potential topics: Does God exist?, Subliminal messages on television, and Is advanced technology an advantage or disadvantage. She conducted interviews about these topics with 6 people ranging in age from 11 to 45. Based on the interviews and her own interests, Jodie is leaning towards exploring the topic "Does God exist?" for her documentary as it seems to generate a strong debate and she feels knowledgeable about issues relating to God from her philosophy studies.
The document summarizes changes to health care law and policies resulting from the Affordable Care Act and other regulations. Key points include:
- The employer mandate was delayed until 2015 to allow employers more time to comply. Other ACA provisions like the individual mandate and health insurance exchanges remain on schedule.
- Reporting requirements for employers were also delayed until 2015 but employers are still encouraged to report health coverage information in 2014. Requirements like providing a summary of benefits to employees remain in effect.
- Small business tax credits of up to 50% of premium costs were introduced to encourage small businesses to offer health insurance to employees.
- Payment reforms aim to increase Medicaid rates for primary care physicians and provide bonuses for
Presentation at the 2014 annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, held in London on August 27th-29th.
The paper provided an analysis of farmer knowledge networks in relation to bovine TB and argues that understandings of farmers’ knowledge networks relating to animal disease control are weak. TB is used as a case study and scenario analysis to determine the networks that farmers would draw upon in particular situations. The research team developed four different scenarios to control TB in the future: a badger cull in hot spot areas, an oral badger vaccine, a cattle vaccine, and a range of measures. The findings confirmed the importance of certain so-called ‘influencers’, such as private vets and the NFU, as well as Defra. The influence of other farmers is also notable but the findings raise interesting questions about how farmers are influenced by their peers – typically more to compare practise / reactions than to obtain information. At the end of the paper these specific findings are related to more general questions about the merits of using scenarios and influence maps to inform TB and other complex policy areas and wider debates about ‘stakeholdership’ and ‘partnership’ governance.
This study focuses on exploring the relationship between experience of climate change (flooding) and response to climate change amongst farmers in Gloucestershire. Findings from a postal survey with farmers, and follow up interviews are discussed and conclusions offered.
The document discusses developments in environmental policy, the attractions of integrated delivery approaches, and lessons learned from a pilot catchment project in the Upper Thames region. Key points include: current policy emphasizes more integrated, landscape-scale approaches; integrating work could help share burdens, maximize outcomes, and increase involvement; the Water Framework Directive requires improved waterbody management and a catchment focus; and the pilot aimed to integrate existing work through collaboration but determining roles and long-term impact requires more time.
Dr. Frances Harris from Centre for Earth and Environmental Sciences Research, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at Kingston University - with areview of approaches to knowledge co-production focused on food, water, energy and environment.
This talk sets out Gwenda’s PhD which is just getting underway. It was presenteed at Workshop 3 of the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and AHRC Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme; ‘“Between the Tides”. Comparative arts and humanities approaches to living with(in) intertidal landscapes in UK & the Netherlands. Learning from those who live and work with complexity, change and fragility’ on 23rd Oct “103 in Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol UK.
The project is led by Dr Owain Jones of CCRI with Dr. Bettina van Hoven Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Gwenda’s PhD is one of the exciting outcomes of this research network.
The document summarizes a conference on new directions in rural policy held in Gloucester on September 27th, 2012. It discusses limitations of past rural policies related to sustainable development, the rural economy, agriculture, land use planning and rural communities. It also outlines priorities from a September 2012 Rural Statement including economic growth, rural engagement and quality of life, with broadband identified as a higher priority than transport.
This document summarizes a presentation on ethics for social workers and attorneys. It discusses key differences in their roles, with social workers focused on clients' overall circumstances and attorneys advocating for individual clients' expressed wishes. The presentation covers ethics rules around competence and confidentiality that are important for both professions. It also explains when social workers should refer clients to attorneys, such as for legal advice regarding estate planning, guardianship, and Medicaid eligibility. The presenters are experts in elder law who provide their contact information.
The ValueLinks methodology is used to analyze value chains, develop upgrading strategies and plans, and facilitate collaborative action. It involves selecting a value chain, conducting strategic analysis, and implementing plans to address constraints. Training and capacity building are important to apply the methodology. Workshops introduce the approach to stakeholders and develop skills of practitioners, trainers, and facilitators. Networks help share experience and institutionalize the knowledge in countries.
A Brief Overview of Wealth Creation and Value Chainsruralsupport
The document discusses building sustainable livelihoods through a wealth creation approach focused on rural value chains. It proposes assessing value chains based on their ability to generate seven forms of wealth: social, natural, political, intellectual, built, individual, and financial capital. Interventions aim to collaboratively build multiple types of wealth through activities like training, grants, and events. Progress is measured using indicators for each form of wealth. The role of intermediaries is to facilitate communication, foster investment, and hold a system-wide view of building sustainable rural livelihoods through value chains.
Tesco voice of the customer: achieving a 360 customer viewlocalinsight
The document summarizes Maria Sealey's presentation on achieving a 360-degree customer view at LGA's Customer Insight Conference. The presentation covers capturing customer views through multiple channels, bridging data silos between departments to get a complete view, and challenges in integrating customer data. It provides examples of tools for gathering customer insights like social media monitoring, surveys, and focus groups to get both prompted and unprompted feedback. The presentation also discusses how customers now research online and shop across channels, calling for a unified approach to customer insight.
ECR – Austria Working Group: Social SustainabilityECR Community
The ECR - Austria Working Group on Social Sustainability aims to optimize opportunities for manufacturers and retailers to more efficiently and systematically donate unsold but still usable products to social markets in Austria. These social markets offer discounted goods to people with low incomes. The working group will analyze potential partnerships and logistic supply chains between businesses and social markets, as well as study the benefits of such cooperation, in order to reduce waste and promote social inclusion.
1. The document discusses various aspects of marketing channels including marketing channel design, market testing, and segmentation for marketing channel design.
2. It provides definitions of marketing channels and discusses important concepts like marketing flows in channels, who belongs to a marketing channel, and the work of marketing channels.
3. The document also discusses channel analysis framework including channel design process, channel implementation process, and concepts like channel power and channel conflict.
This document provides an introduction to marketing channels and distribution. It defines what a marketing channel is and explains why manufacturers use intermediaries. The key members of marketing channels are producers, wholesalers, retailers, and end users. Channels add value through activities like sorting, accumulating, allocating, and assorting products. Channels also allow for the routinization of transactions and reduction in the number of customer contacts. The document outlines important channel concepts like physical possession, promotion, negotiation, financing, and risk taking that flow between members.
1) The document discusses the objectives of business communication, including expressing a company's identity, values, and relationships.
2) It also covers the objectives of marketing communication, such as increasing customer value and loyalty as well as modifying demand.
3) Communicational objectives include both behavioral responses like purchases as well as non-behavioral responses involving awareness, associations, and evaluations.
This document discusses real-time analytics and attribution in marketing. It covers topics like marketing mix modeling and optimization to understand the impact of different marketing activities on sales. Marketing mix modeling helps allocate resources appropriately, understand which activities provide the best ROI, and evaluate different marketing spending plans. The document also discusses how the marketing landscape has become more fragmented with many new digital channels, and how marketing mix optimization can help address challenges around justifying budgets, measuring performance of spending, and optimizing across channels. Case studies show how marketing mix modeling has provided benefits like increased revenues and profits as well as savings from reducing ineffective activities.
This document discusses marketing strategies for rural markets in India. It begins by outlining the 4Ps framework - product, price, place and promotion - and identifies key challenges in rural areas related to each P. For product, it discusses appropriate strategies like simplicity and adapting existing urban products. For price, it discusses appropriate pricing methods and adaptations like lower price points. For place, it discusses challenges in rural distribution and strategies like hub and spoke models. Finally, for promotion it discusses unconventional promotion methods suitable for rural areas like melas, haats, folk media and direct marketing approaches. Overall, the document provides an overview of adapting the marketing mix to better serve rural consumer needs and markets in India.
The rules of the game and business models in primary preventionPREVE group
This document discusses business models and rules for primary disease prevention using information and communication technologies (ICT). It begins by defining business models and how they illustrate how organizations create and capture value. It emphasizes the importance of understanding customer needs and co-creating value. The document then discusses how the "rules of the game" or institutions shape what business models are possible. Finally, it applies this framework to consider what business models and rules could support ICT-enabled primary prevention, focusing on personalized approaches and changing rules to incentivize wellness. The challenges of transforming existing systems are also addressed.
This document discusses strategies for identifying beneficiaries and linking rural producers to urban markets through farmer producer companies (FPCs). It outlines how FPCs can help rural producers overcome limitations like insufficient resources, low skills and technology, and small quantities. FPCs can help producers access larger urban markets by providing uniform high quality products at scale and competitive prices. The document discusses how FPCs are structured with boards, management teams, and shareholders. It provides examples of how FPCs have helped increase farmers' incomes and economic impacts. The key is providing end-to-end support through groups, infrastructure development, market and financial linkages, knowledge and skills training.
Scaling up projects, programs, and their impact involves expanding their scope, coverage, funding, and replication. This allows benefits to reach more people, but it requires overcoming challenges like limited budgets. Strategies include leveraging co-financing, mainstreaming into government programs, and helping smallholders organize collectively to gain influence and access markets and services. The goal of scaling up is to sustainably improve livelihoods at a wide scale. It works best by strengthening community institutions first and then linking smallholder groups to private sector partners and financing sources. With the right models and incentives, scaling up can bridge the viability gap between what communities and the private sector can support alone.
The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on customer development and business models, including sessions on developing a value proposition, identifying customer segments, creating a business model canvas, developing a customer discovery action plan, and discussing customer relationships, revenue streams, and the customer development manifesto. Homework assignments involve updating the business model canvas and developing a customer discovery action plan.
This document summarizes a report on scaling inclusive agri-food markets. It discusses how inclusive agri-food markets can help alleviate poverty by including small-scale farmers, entrepreneurs, and rural laborers. The report identifies drivers and barriers to scaling these markets, and provides directions for doing so, such as strengthening coordination platforms, influencing supportive policies, and improving partnerships between businesses, governments, and organizations. The overarching goal is to scale inclusive business models that benefit both profits and poverty reduction.
This document outlines a strategy for improving rural livelihoods through a paradigm shift in production and marketing. It proposes forming thematic self-help groups (T-SHGs) focused on a common livelihood theme. These T-SHGs would come together into a federation for collective bargaining. The federation would link with a producers' company to access infrastructure, achieve economies of scale in production and quality, and connect to urban markets. This end-to-end model provides resources, training, market access, and financial services to lift small producers out of poverty by placing them higher in the value chain.
Indian retailers are struggling as reform hopes are dashed. Future Group, India's largest supermarket operator, is selling assets and scaling back expansion plans. While India has a large population and growing affluence, competition is limited and the retail environment remains tough. A small reform like allowing foreign multi-brand retailers could boost moods, especially for supermarket owners, by benefiting farmers and small producers.
From distribution-channel-from-distribution-channel-to2569Bryk Miroslaw
The document discusses distribution systems and supply chain management. It defines distribution channels as systems of interdependent organizations that build value as products move through. Supply chain management involves coordinating flows of materials, information, and finances among channel members. E-business allows more efficient management of information flows. The document then discusses challenges like the bullwhip effect and how information technologies can help address them.
The document summarizes Towni, an online service that aims to strengthen local economies, inform and educate residents, and fund community initiatives. It does this through a marketplace, knowledge base, and crowdfunding platform. The service is launching in 7 towns in New Jersey and seeks seed funding to expand to more towns. It generates revenue from merchant subscriptions and commissions on e-commerce sales.
Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
1) The document discusses research into how social and intellectual capital contribute to collective environmental action through Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the UK.
2) Key findings indicate that while CSFF funding aims to develop social capital, most knowledge sharing currently occurs between members with close ties, and there is limited evidence of collective environmental action.
3) Continued support is needed to strengthen relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange across different actor groups, and provide funding to enable CSFF groups to deliver landscape-scale environmental improvements over time.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
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1. Beckert, boskop and biodiversity: facing
the conceptual leap between social and
environmental order in rural markets
Dan Keech, Research Assist., CCRI
(and 4th year PhD Student, Southampton)
dkeech@glos.ac.uk
Gloucester, 17th Jan 2013
2. Aims of this presentation
• Part1: To present some of Prof Beckert’s ideas about
the social order and coordinating ‘problems’
inherent in market exchange.
• Ask: Can Beckert’s ideas be adapted so that they are
useful for observing environmental outcomes from
rural markets? In this case the environmental
mission is conceptualised as orchard biosphere
conservation.
• Part 2: Explore that question with recourse to
research on some German social enterprises, ie. I will
attempt the leap.
3. Jens who?
• Beckert is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the
Study of Societies in Cologne.
• Publications on market order and stability, social
structures, Polanyi, value, inherited wealth, empirical
contributions to economic sociology.
4. Economic sociology (1)
Beckert follows a distinguished line from across the
disciplines whose position is that rational actor theory is
inadequate to explain market action.
Durkheim (1858-1917) studied the social implications of
industrialisation.
Weber (1964-1920) traced protestant faith as a motivator
in pursuit and accumulation of capital.
Parsons (1902-79) rejected idea that social stability comes
a priori from pursuing self-interest. Norms and values
also needed to integrate econ & society towards order.
5. Beckert adds…
• Markets are social spheres where action is influenced by
regulation, power, coercion, welfare, custom, place…
• Beckert acknowledges the hierarchy within capitalism –
private, state, third sectors. But he is concerned that the
tools used by the subsidiaries (redistribution and
reciprocation) are not adequately recognised as resource
allocation mechanisms.
• Actors seek stability and social order so that they can
make reliable predictions about the results of actions.
6. Beckert adds… (2)
• Exchange can only work if actors manage to co-ordinate
the trio of inherent ‘problems’: co-operation,
competition and value.
• The use of field theory allows insights into market
dynamism, which has implications for market order.
7. Beckert and markets as fields
Cognition
Shape perception of Provide legitimation
network structures & shape perception
of institutions
Shape and diffuse
cognitive frames Makes values
socially relevant
Est. collective
power to shape
institutions
Networks Institutions
Influence structure
of social networks
8. Field theory is, in this context
• A way to examine how social/market dynamics work
and what happens when market actors try to co-
ordinate their ‘problems’.
9. Potential Problems
• Beckert hardly mentions the environment (and no
orchards).
• Critics feel he misses a range of influences on market
action, e.g. exchange and interest rates; or that historical
and political developments define order more forcefully
than markets.
• Power is used by some market actors to consolidate
their market position. How does this sit with my interest
study in social enterprise (SE)?
• Fligstein can be a helpful supplement (social skill in
fields)… later.
10. Facing the leap
• If analyses of market relationships (based on efforts
to balance co-ordination problems) provide insights
into opportunities for social outcomes…
• …might the same techniques prove useful in working
out how market interventions could lead to new
relationships…
• …which result in environmental ‘order’ – the revival
of struggling economic landscapes?
11. Summary
• Beckert offers new ways to look at Alt Food
Networks, rural social enterprises and the third
sector. These have rich but sometimes highly
normative literatures (esp SE).
• There are clear parallels between inherent market
tensions and social enterprise operation.
• Though I am proposing a conceptual adaptation, we
can perhaps see that Beckert’s analysis techniques
could help in devising practical interventions.
13. Part 2: SE, Beckert and orchards
• SE is different from other types of business because SEs
consciously juggle multiple goals.
• For environmental SEs that list of things to juggle is even
more complicated.
• SE model and governance structures affect the juggling. I
will now introduce three German SEs and briefly look at
two through the lens of fields.
14. Orchard social enterprises
• Reciprocal model – co-operative run by producers
• Networked market – registered association where SE
facilitates changes within existing market structures
• Market building model – limited and unlimited
companies; SE as competitor.
16. What’s the problem?
• These orchards may cost more to husband than they
earn.
• Payment to farmer may be delayed until juice sells (cash-
flow).
• Result: little incentive to manage orchards, which are
neglected or grubbed out – ie. rich habitat is lost,
biodiversity suffers. Economic and environmental logic
clashes.
German SEs qualify juice, promote husbandry and
redistribute money in the chain – ‘Aufpreis’
17. Disorder in the juice market
apples
Farmers Commerc’l Sales income
Wholesale
press Juice products
Retail
££
logistics
Problem: inadequate
18. Networked market
Civic
apples Sales income
Juice
Farmers Press
products
Logistics, w’sale, retail
more ££
contract differentiation
3rd sector group
sets up
Marketing, customers, grants
separate SE
19. Reciprocal model
Co-op members
(265)
Capital €100 min per
€0.60 sales: member
Home c’spn or
home re-sale
Co-op owned
press. Parish council
building
Wholesale
paid seasonal labour
Retail at press Juices
Nursery school
20. Market building model
Civic pubs retailer w’sale civic
Sales income
capitalise
SE
warehouse
& labour Product range Press &
Specialist
Buy services processors
contract
Collection points
for quality control
and payment
Shareholders, of ££ apples
which one is
operational farmers
director
21. Some summary points
Model Output (litres) Some key points
Reciprocal 30,000 – • Development of new infrastructure
70,000 • Overlap between consumers, producers, stakeholders
• Economic value of juice is multiple – w/sale, home-retail,
public procurement, self-provisioning
• Environmental gain unclear
Network 15,000 – • Stimulation/negotiation of existing market relations
600,000 • Mobilisation of supporters to create demand
• Increased sales create higher supply price
• NGO link helps create civic support
• Expansion of commercial organic production
Market- 40,000 – • Co-option of competitors
building 80,000 • Differentiation on basis of product range and fruit variety,
client base and price ranges
• High level of market research
• Good retention of traditional orchard management
22. Field analysis of networked market SE
Cognitive frames
Local identity
Juice qualities
Cultural landscape
Shape perception of Biological data Provide legitimation
network structures Knowledge transfer & shape perception
Civil alliances of institutions
Shape and diffuse
cognitive frames Makes values
socially relevant
Networks Est. collective Institutions
power to shape
Social enterprises Federalism
institutions
NGO supporters Local councils
SE supporters Self-provision
Commercial presses Influence structure Registered associations
Regional orchard networks of social networks Contracts
23. Field analysis of market-building SE
Cognitive frames
Self provision
Cultural landscape
Juice qualities
Shape perception of Risk esp. harvest
Provide legitimation
network structures & shape perception
of institutions
Shape and diffuse
cognitive frames Makes values
socially relevant
Networks Est. collective
power to shape Institutions
SE & inter-SE Alliances
institutions Federalism
Local councils
Company/employ’t law
Presses
Influence structure Aufpreis
of social networks
24. Discussion (1)
• In a market building model, the risk associated with
harvest failure is big. Alliances with networked models
are a clever mitigation.
• That alliance means that Aufpreis become an
environmental institution.
• Creating market qualities which stimulate social skill in
the local market (co-operation), ties customers and
suppliers to environmental production (orchard
conservation).
25. Discussion (2)
• By contrast, in the networked market, SEs intervene but
seek no power and actively avoid competition,
concentrating all their efforts on value (supply price and
juice qualities) and co-operation.
• Though they depend on existing market structures, they
succeed in constructing ‘civil’ supply chains behind the
orchard conservation.
26. Conclusions
Beckert’s ideas can be usefully adapted to:
1. Explain the operations of different SE formats in rural
markets.
2. Empirically unearth new arrangements of cognition,
institutions and networks.
3. Create supply chain, civil, co-operative and civic alliances
bound together by local and regional environmental
concerns.
4. Potentially assist decision-making for those wishing to
conserve orchard biospheres and their species.
27. Selected reading
Beckert, J. (2002) Transl. Harshav, B. Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency.
Princeton University Press.
- (2007) The Great Transformation of Embeddedness – Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology. MPIfG
Duscussion Paper 07/1.
- (2007) The Social Order of Markets. MPIfG Discussion Paper 07/15.
- (2010) How do fields change? The interrelations of institutions, networks and cognition in the dynamics of
markets. Organisation Studies Vol. 31, pp.605-626.
- (2010) The Transcending Power of Goods – Imaginative Value in the Economy. MPIfG Discussion Paper 10/4.
- & Aspers, P. (2011) The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy. Oxford University Press.
- (2012) Capitalism as a system of Contingent Expectations. MPIfG Discussion Paper 12/4.
Fligstein, N. (2001) Social Skill and the Theory of Fields. Sociological Theory, Vol. 19, pp.105-125.
Gemici, K. (2012) Uncertainty, the problem of order, and markets: a critique of Beckert, Theory and Society,
May 2009. Theory and Society, Vol. 41, pp. 107-118.
Rössel, J. & Beckert, J. (2012) Quality Classifications in Competition – Price Formation in the German Wine
Market. MPIfG Discussion Paper 12/3.
White, H. & Godart, F. Märkte als soziale Formationen. In: Beckert, J., Diaz-Bone, R., & Gauβmann (eds.) (2002)
Märkte als soziale Strukturen. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.