I am delighted to announce my new article on social innovation in agricolture and food, written with Antonello Podda and Toa Giroletti entitled “Solidarity Purchasing Groups in Italy : a critical assessment of their effects on the marginalization of their suppliers“. The article has been published in the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, in a special issue coordinated by Allison Loconto and Yuna Chiffoleau entitled “SOCIAL INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES?“. (more…)
Wednesday June 6th, 2018 the network AGAPP from IGOP has hosted a seminar with Antonello Podda
(University of Cagliari), dealing with the analysis of social capital in rural areas. (more…)
In the Italian journal Meridiana, I published a new article taken from the EU Funded Project CRESSI entitled 
“La dimensione territoriale dell’innovazione sociale. Il caso dei gruppi di acquisto solidale“. The article studies the impact of the geographical context on the activities of the Solidarity Purchasing Groups, which I already defined as one of the most interesting cases of social innovation in alternative food networks in Italy. (more…)
I’m very happy to announce that my article “Are Solidarity Purchasing Groups a Social Innovation? A study inspired by Social Forces” has been published by PACO, in the issue 3 of 2017. This study stems from the EU Funded Project CrESSI (2014-2018) and it aims at studying social innovations cases in their capacity to tackle economic marginalisation of beneficiaries. And the answer is yes, they are. (more…)
January, 18th I have invited my colleague and friend Davide Arcidiacono (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano) for giving a seminar at the Iscola IGOP. The seminar was entitled: “Social Innovation in Agricolture and Food. The case of Italian Solidarity Purchasing Groups“. Our paper was discussed by Marc Pradel, from the department of sociology of University of Barcelona. (more…)
