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Title [en]
Organizing REKO: The Viability of a Local Food System in Finland, Sweden & Latvia
Abstract [en]
The production and consumption of local food is often advocated as an alternative to the unsustainable global and industrial food system. REKO has rapidly been established as an innovative alternative for both production and consumption of local food via digital and physical activities. It was established in Finland 2013 and has since proven a successful recipe for local food, with Sweden joining a similar development in 2016. Recently there is budding activity in Latvia. REKO is, however, not a formal organization - there are, for example, no formal leaders, guiding documents, or stated identity - and can be described as an informal and loose social formation where producers and consumers interact without intermediaries, using Facebook and physical meetings places called pick-ups. The purpose of this project is to explore what makes REKO viable in three variously mature contexts in the Baltic Sea Region: Finland, Sweden, and Latvia. For this purpose we adopt the theory of organizationality - a communication based view on how loose social formations achieve degrees of “organization-ness” through interconnected processes of identity, actorhood and decision-making - and theorizing of place. From an ethnographic approach, we select five local REKO rings (2 in Finland, 2 in Sweden, and 1 in Latvia) to study online interactions, documents, and to perform 17 observations and 50 interviews.
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Lövgren, D. (2026). REKO-ring - och vägen mot relationsmat. Åter (2), 36-39
Open this publication in new window or tab >>REKO-ring - och vägen mot relationsmat
2026 (Swedish)In: Åter, ISSN 1650-3546, no 2, p. 4p. 36-39Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Gudhem: Tidningen Åter, 2026. p. 4
Keywords
REKO, lokal mat, local food, relationsmat, organisering, alternativ organisering, organisationalitet, identitet
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-60071 (URN)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 22-PR2-0003_OS
Available from: 2026-05-26 Created: 2026-05-26 Last updated: 2026-05-27Bibliographically approved
Lövgren, D., Christensen, E., Siegert, S. & Leipämaa-Leskinen, H. (2025). Shaping Place through Organizationality: The Case of REKO. In: : . Paper presented at 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference, 24-27 June 2025, Oslo, Norway. Oslo
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Shaping Place through Organizationality: The Case of REKO
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: , 2025
Keywords
Organizationality, place, local food system, identity, actorhood, decision-making
National Category
Social Sciences Media and Communication Studies
Research subject
Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-57688 (URN)
Conference
18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference, 24-27 June 2025, Oslo, Norway
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 22-PR2-0003
Available from: 2025-06-26 Created: 2025-06-26 Last updated: 2025-10-14Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorLövgren, Daniel
Co-InvestigatorChristensen, Emma
Co-InvestigatorLeipämaa-Leskinen, Hanna
Co-InvestigatorSiegert, Steffi
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2023-01-01 － 2025-12-31
Keywords [sv]
Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
Keywords [en]
Baltic and East European studies
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:7228Project, id: 22-PR2-0003_OS

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