Emergence and Development of Transformative Capacities for the Sustainability of the Agri-Food System: The Process in Valdivia, Chile

Nancy Sarabia () and Jordi Peris ()
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Nancy Sarabia: INGENIO [CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València], Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, Polytechnic City of Innovation, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Jordi Peris: INGENIO [CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València], Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, Polytechnic City of Innovation, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 11, 1-27

Abstract: Local agri-food disruptive innovations are becoming increasingly crucial for the transformation of agri-food regimes towards sustainability. This study incorporates a systemic approach to explore the relevance of various capacities available at the city region level to prepare, initiate, and lead a change in the sustainability trajectory of local agri-food systems. It explores the city of Valdivia, Chile, which has a large movement of sustainable cooperatives and diverse disruptive private and public agri-food initiatives that are challenging the deep free-market economic and social model with an agro-exporting, competitive, and centralist focus. Through the systemic approach of sustainability transition studies, themes of emergence and development of local agri-food transition processes are being developed, and the findings are linked to studies of social movements and the social and solidarity economy.

Keywords: sustainability transitions; social movements; agri-food transitions; agroecology transitions; city region agri-food; agri-food policy framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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