Classifying New Hybrid Cooperation Models for Short Food-Supply Chains—Providing a Concept for Assessing Sustainability Transformation in the Urban-Rural Nexus

Martens, Katrin; Rogga, Sebastian; Zscheischler, Jana; Pölling, Bernd; Obersteg, Andreas; Piorr, Annette

doi:10.3390/land11040582

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Classifying New Hybrid Cooperation Models for Short Food-Supply Chains—Providing a Concept for Assessing Sustainability Transformation in the Urban-Rural Nexus

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Katrin Martens

^1,*,

Sebastian Rogga

¹,

Jana Zscheischler

^1,2

,

Bernd Pölling

³

,

Andreas Obersteg

⁴ and

Annette Piorr

¹

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany

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Geography—Faculty II, University of Vechta, Driverstraße 22, 49377 Vechta, Germany

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Department of Agriculture, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen University of Applied Sciences, Lübecker Ring 2, 59494 Soest, Germany

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HafenCity University Hamburg, Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Land 2022, 11(4), 582; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040582

Submission received: 14 March 2022 / Revised: 8 April 2022 / Accepted: 11 April 2022 / Published: 15 April 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban-Rural-Partnerships: Sustainable and Resilient)

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In response to the negative effects caused by structures of the dominant agricultural system and new market opportunities, increasing food supply structures have re-emerged in the urban-rural context of industrialized countries in recent years. These food supply structures often accompany new forms of hybrid cooperation models, including actors and institutions that have not shared resources previously. They form new alliances for sustainable transformation in the agri-food sector. Simultaneously, discourse has arisen in science and practice about the sustainability potential of such hybrid cooperation, referring to a lack of critical systematization and the necessity for creating an assessment concept. From the latter, one could draw conclusions about the transformative potential of such cooperation models and their potential to serve as blueprints for other regions. In this conceptual paper, a classification approach derived from social enterprise literature is elaborated, extended, and evaluated, to design a classification of new hybrid cooperation models that allow comparisons between regions and are sensitive to their dynamics. We show in an application how the classification approach, considering the dimensions “actors”, “resources”, and “actions”, serves to discover patterns in the development of short food-supply chain practices, identifying individual transition paths and, thus, making statements about their sustainability and challenges.

Keywords: agri-food systems; collective action; cooperation; pooling; urban-rural interlinkages; short food-supply chains; regional food systems; hybrid organizations

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Martens, K.; Rogga, S.; Zscheischler, J.; Pölling, B.; Obersteg, A.; Piorr, A. Classifying New Hybrid Cooperation Models for Short Food-Supply Chains—Providing a Concept for Assessing Sustainability Transformation in the Urban-Rural Nexus. Land 2022, 11, 582. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040582

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Martens K, Rogga S, Zscheischler J, Pölling B, Obersteg A, Piorr A. Classifying New Hybrid Cooperation Models for Short Food-Supply Chains—Providing a Concept for Assessing Sustainability Transformation in the Urban-Rural Nexus. Land. 2022; 11(4):582. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040582

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Martens, Katrin, Sebastian Rogga, Jana Zscheischler, Bernd Pölling, Andreas Obersteg, and Annette Piorr. 2022. "Classifying New Hybrid Cooperation Models for Short Food-Supply Chains—Providing a Concept for Assessing Sustainability Transformation in the Urban-Rural Nexus" Land 11, no. 4: 582. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040582

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Martens, K., Rogga, S., Zscheischler, J., Pölling, B., Obersteg, A., & Piorr, A. (2022). Classifying New Hybrid Cooperation Models for Short Food-Supply Chains—Providing a Concept for Assessing Sustainability Transformation in the Urban-Rural Nexus. Land, 11(4), 582. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040582

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