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- Convenor:
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Alexander Borda-Rodriguez
(The Open University )
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- Formats:
- Papers
- Stream:
- Inclusive development?
- Location:
- Library, Seminar Room 1
- Sessions:
- Wednesday 19 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
In this panel we explore how and to what extent Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) constitutes a path towards the achievement of SDGs.
Long Abstract:
The panel critically examines how and to what extent SSE can contribute to the achievement of SDGs. Despite the challenges it faces, SSE has developed inclusive forms of innovation, people centred businesses, and it has enabled low income people to take charge of their own development.
In the Global South, SSE is driven by values and principles that provide the basis for sustainable forms of development and innovation (Coraggio 2016, 2017), it accommodates the needs of marginalised communities by improving their capabilities and enabling them to engage with the market and wider society in fair and sustainable ways. The practical and policy implications of this type of 'doing development' remains underexplored.
The current global market economy is characterised by technologies and forms of innovation that exclude the interests and aspirations of poor people, SSE draws on sustainable practices that gives marginalised people collective voice and active agency over decisions that affect their lives. The panel aims to contribute to this discussion and its implications for policy by inviting papers on issues including, but not limited to:
1. The theoretical and practical relationship between SSE values/principles and SDGs.
2. The extent to which public policies recognise SSE as a developmental path for vulnerable and poor populations.
3. The relevance of SSE discourses to debates relating to inclusive innovation, decent work and reduced inequality.
4. SSE perspectives from the global South (which have been neglected in the English-language literature) in relation to global development challenges.
5. The politics of SSE and their impact on marginalised people.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Wednesday 19 June, 2019, -Les Levidow (Open University)
Paper short abstract:
Informed by the concept of Economia Social e Solidaria (SSE), Brazil's agroecology movements link farmers' knowledge-exchange, socio-environmental technologies and short food-supply chains. Together these elements build a basis for solidarity markets, while also fulfilling several of the SDGs.
Paper long abstract:
SSE (Economia Social e Solidaria) expresses solidaristic interdependencies within and across economic activities. This model promotes cooperative relationships which enhance capacities and livelihoods, especially through shorter supply chains bringing producers closer to consumers. SSE has been taken up for Brazil's Agrarian Reform - the focus of this paper. Many initiatives have adopted these six common principles: solidarity economy, agroecology, fair trade, solidarity consumption, networks and self-management.
Around the turn of the century, Brazil's MST (landless movement) began to experiment with agroecological practices in their occupied settlements; they soon linked agroecology with food sovereignty as a counter-strategy against agribusiness. With support from agricultural extension services, peasant-to-peasant encounters have exchanged seeds and knowledge of agroecological methods. Their internal training programmes have built expertise to develop 'socio-environmental technologies', i.e. those which can be collectively managed and disseminated to other farms.
By contrast with the expensive third-party (auditorio) certification of organic products, an alternative option (OCS-SGP) allows collective self-certification through a Participatory Guarantee Systems facilitating an improvement process. This is more suitable for small-scale producers, whose 'organic' label thereby has gained better remuneration through box schemes and special retail outlets, attracting consumers who support the production methods.
With support from civil society groups, agroecology movements have built short food-supply chains which gain consumer support, and well as institutional food procurement. Together these elements build a solidarity economy, helping peasants to resist a self-destructive inclusion into the Green Revolution model. In this way, agroecology movements strengthen farmers' capacity to fulfill several SDGs.
Alexander Borda-Rodriguez (The Open University ) Carlos Encalada
Paper short abstract:
This paper explores critically the role played the state and SSE organisations in the attainment of SGDs, more specifically, it explores how SSE organisations have contributed to the implementations of SDGs. The article draws on extensive qualitative data collected in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Paper long abstract:
SSE in Latin America is commonly refer to as Popular and Solidarity Economy (PSE) and, it has been embraced by several countries across the region. Article 283 of the Constitution of Ecuador (in place since 2008) states that Ecuador's 'economic system is social and solidaristic, it recognises human beings as the subject and the purpose of it' furthermore, it states 'PSE includes co-operatives, associations and community enterprises'. Since 2008, Ecuador has developed a robust state apparatus that seeks to build a people-centre economy and society, it aims to achieve this by translating SSE values and principles into action while engaging with the most vulnerable sectors of society.
Ecuador's Organic Law for PSE (2011), seeks to develop an economy 'based on relations of solidarity, cooperation and reciprocity, giving priority to (decent) work and to human beings over the accumulation of capital'. SSE organisations contribute almost 60% of the GDP and have increased from 18,016 in 2012 to 20,955 in 2015
The national development plans (2007, 2009 and 2013) were developed in line with the MDGs and SGDs and between 2009 and 2016, the national multidimensional poverty index reduced from 54% to 35%, however, there is little evidence-based research that shows how and in what ways SSE has played a role in the attainment of MDGs and SDGs.
This paper explores critically the role played the state and SSE organisations in the attainment of SGDs, more specifically, it explores how SSE organisations have contributed to the implementations of SDGs.