Foodcoop

A food coop ( suitcase word from English food , "food", "food", and coop as an abbreviation for " cooperative "; also food coop or food co-op ) is an association of people and private households as a shopping community for mutual reference of food .

Basics

The aim is to purchase larger quantities of food as directly as possible from the producers in and through a community. B. To achieve minimum wholesale orders , discounts or deliveries to certain locations. Food coops usually work through the division of labor and collective (self) administration, the isolation of consumers is lifted and consumers with similar lifestyles come together.

A distinction is made between order food coops , where orders are only made jointly, warehouse food coops , which maintain a joint warehouse, and member shops , in which hired staff takes care of the maintenance of a joint shop.

Often, in addition to being able to purchase organically grown food at lower prices , food coops also have more ambitious goals such as

Promote fair trade
Promotion of ecological agriculture without using pesticides , manure and genetic engineering
Support of regional agriculture with direct marketing and short transport routes
Assumption of responsibility for the effects of one's own consumption (e.g. ecological , water or CO ₂ footprint , resource conservation , restriction to seasonal products, etc.)

Food coops in Upper Austria

In April 2016, the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce, representing retailers, threatened individual food coops that operate without a trade license with charges of violating the trade regulations. On December 12, 2016, Environment Councilor Rudi Anschober presented 7 rules as a result of negotiations. "Distribute local food without making a profit. - Distribution locations may be open for a maximum of two half-days a week. - Producers may not be members of the Coop association." This agreement could be a model for other federal states.

Scientific investigations

Numerous research projects address the connection of food cooperatives with decentralized software solutions, such as those used in car sharing, for example . Although food coops are an important global component in local supply chains that could promote sustainable development , the concept has so far had little role model function outside of the groups of people involved and is heavily dependent on whether sufficient common infrastructure is already available in advance .

Web links

Wikibooks: Foodcoop - learning and teaching materials

Germany:

www.foodcoops.de - The Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Lebensmittelkooperativen eV represents the interests of food coops
Food Coop Founding Guide
Foodcoopedia - interesting facts about foodcoops all over Germany
fcschinke09.de Foodcoop in Kreuzberg
bio-food-coop.de - German food coop for organic food

Austria:

www.foodcoops.at - Foodcoops in Austria

Guide to Starting and Operating Food Coops - Free PDF Download

www.genussfairteiler.at - Foodcoop in Neumarkt iM (Upper Austria)

Switzerland:

www.foodcoops.ch - Foodcoops in Switzerland

www.tor14.ch - TOR14 Foodcoop Zurich

Open source software for food coops:

https://github.com/foodcoopshop/foodcoopshop - FoodCoopShop
https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft - Foodsoft

Individual evidence

↑ Agreement for "food coops" reached orf.at, December 12, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016.
^ Stefan Naumann: From the Food Coop to the Mobility Coop: Computer-aided cooperation as a contribution to resource conservation . In: Martin Engelien, Jens Homann (Hrsg.): Virtuelle Organization und Neue Medien 2002. Workshop GeNeMe2002 Communities in New Media (= Norbert Szyperski et al. [Hrsg.]: Telekommunikation @ Mediendienste . No. 14 ). Josef EUL Verlag GmbH, Lohmar, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa-205595 .
↑ Ani L. Katchova, Timothy A. Woods: Food Cooperatives' Innovations and System Dynamics in Local Food Networks . Ed .: Gerhard Schiefer (= Proceedings in Food System Dynamics ). 2012, ISSN 2194-511X , doi : 10.18461 / pfsd.2012.1213 .
↑ Jutta Deffner et al .: Housing-related services in communal housing. Systematisation, case studies and first considerations for generalization. Workshop report. In: WohnMobil. 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
^ Felix Zoll et al .: Individual choice or collective action? Exploring consumer motives for participating in alternative food networks . In: International Journal of Consumer Studies . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., November 1, 2017, doi : 10.1111 / ijcs.12405 .

[1] Agreement for "food coops" reached orf.at, December 12, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016.

[2] Stefan Naumann: From the Food Coop to the Mobility Coop: Computer-aided cooperation as a contribution to resource conservation . In: Martin Engelien, Jens Homann (Hrsg.): Virtuelle Organization und Neue Medien 2002. Workshop GeNeMe2002 Communities in New Media (= Norbert Szyperski et al. [Hrsg.]: Telekommunikation @ Mediendienste . No. 14 ). Josef EUL Verlag GmbH, Lohmar, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa-205595 .

[3] Ani L. Katchova, Timothy A. Woods: Food Cooperatives' Innovations and System Dynamics in Local Food Networks . Ed .: Gerhard Schiefer (= Proceedings in Food System Dynamics ). 2012, ISSN 2194-511X , doi : 10.18461 / pfsd.2012.1213 .

[4] Jutta Deffner et al .: Housing-related services in communal housing. Systematisation, case studies and first considerations for generalization. Workshop report. In: WohnMobil. 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .

[5] Felix Zoll et al .: Individual choice or collective action? Exploring consumer motives for participating in alternative food networks . In: International Journal of Consumer Studies . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., November 1, 2017, doi : 10.1111 / ijcs.12405 .