The war effect: a macro view of the economic and environmental situation of Ukraine

Today, Ukraine find itself in a very difficult situation, on the one hand, the already unstable economy has just begun to recover after the coronavirus crisis;on the other hand, it is suffering colossal losses from Russian aggression. The article examines the current economic and ecological state of Ukraine, considering the influence of such drastic external factors as a military invasion with the aim of determining the prerequisites for the formation of an effective social and environmental policy and developing approaches to the improvement and stabilization of the national economy. To achieve the goals of the article, have been used intersectoral balance and in particular economic impact analysis (EIA), which was conducted on the example of the Ukrainian agricultural sector, because it is one of the three driving forces of its economy. The results of the study showed the scenarios of possible changes and their consequences for the economy of the state as a whole, and in the future can be used for study in order to develop new and improve existing methods of solving socio-economic problems at the national level and preserving natural capital, as one of the key elements on path to sustainable development.

"Sobre llovido, mojado”. Problems, strategies, and demands of the Argentine popular, social, and solidarity economy during the pandemic.

The emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic reactivated numerous debates on the social protections required for distinct labor groups and the need to guarantee work and income for the population. This article focuses on the experiences of people who work without ties to an employer and who self-identify as part of the popular, social, and solidarity economy (EPSS) in Argentina. It aims to contribute to the academic debate by identifying the conditions that favored the sustainability and organization of their work beyond the context of the emergency. In particular, we seek to examine whether the situation opened up by the pandemic led to new processes of recognition, institutionalization, and protection for these labor groups or not. A qualitative research process was developed based on interviews with representatives of 14 organizations of EPSS of Greater Rosario (primary sources) and the review of emergency measures and programs implemented by the three levels of government –national, provincial, and local– beginning with the declaration of the health emergency until December 2021 (secondary sources). In the final reflections, the main results are highlighted, positing that the state's responses did not give rise to new institutions, rights, and protections, but rather "organized” and "administered” the institutionality that already existed. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR] La emergencia provocada por la pandemia de la covid-19 reactualizó numerosos debates sobre las protecciones sociales requeridas para los diferentes grupos laborales y la necesidad de garantizar el trabajo y los ingresos de la población. Este artículo se centra en la experiencia de personas que trabajan sin vínculos con un patrón y que se autoidentifican como parte de la economía popular, social y solidaria (EPSS) en Argentina. Se propone abonar al debate académico al respecto identificando aquellas condiciones que favorecieron la sostenibilidad y la organización de sus labores más allá del contexto de la emergencia. En particular, se busca reconocer si la situación abierta por la pandemia devino en nuevos procesos de reconocimiento, institucionalización y protección para estos colectivos laborales. Se desarrolló un trabajo de investigación cualitativo basado en entrevistas a referentes de 14 organizaciones de EPSS del Gran Rosario (fuentes primarias) y la revisión de las medidas de emergencia y los programas implementados por los tres niveles de Gobierno –nacional, provincial y local– desde la declaración de la emergencia sanitaria hasta diciembre de 2021 (fuentes secundarias). En las reflexiones finales se recuperan los principales resultados fundamentando que las respuestas del Estado no dieron lugar a nuevas instituciones, derechos y protecciones, sino que "organizaron” y "administraron” la institucionalidad que ya existía. (Spanish) [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales is the property of FLACSO Ecuador (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Solidarity and Care Economy in Times of ‘Crisis': A View from Greece and Hungary Between 2015 and 2020

This chapter describes the emergence of solidarity actions in two European countries-Greece and Hungary-in response to two recent crises: the arrival of large numbers of refugees in 2015 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Focusing on the experiences in two European countries with different socio-political, historical trajectories and civic traditions, we look at how solidarity economy emerged in crisis and how it was framed not only on monetised value but also on care and nurture. Our accounts of Greece and Hungary draw from ethnographic fieldwork and other qualitative social research (interviews and focus groups) with grassroots solidarity collectives. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022.

Social movements in the context of crisis: waste picker organizations as collaborative public partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social movements are purposeful, organized groups of people addressing the creation and reproduction of inequality, rights and access issues, seeking to transform sectoral policies. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, social movements have been acting in articulation with government and private companies and through other actions formulated within their networks, as service deliverers to the poor and vulnerable populations most heavily affected, often filling a gap created by unfulfilled policies. Our research with waste picker organizations in Brazil illustrates how their struggle for recognition has taken action in this context. Academic and government documents, social media and online material (blogs, posts, websites, etc.) and virtual meetings inform this research. We found that multiple actors have contributed to mitigate the urgent needs of waste pickers during the pandemic, but that at the same time, pre-existing challenges in waste management and the lack of wide-ranging social and economic inclusion have been further intensified.

The popular-solidarity microcredit in the province of Santa Elena, descriptive study of the cooperative segment 1

Introduction/objective: The popular and supportive microcredit is a dynamic element of economic development. Its validity and growth are vital for developing territories, such as the one considered in this work, province of Santa Elena in the Republic of Ecuador. It empowers the generation of sources of employment, availability of sustenance to cover the needs of segments of the population with insufficient income. Methodology: The research is quantitative with a descriptive scope with a non -experi-mental design. It is based on secondary data corresponding to placements of popular and solidarity microcredit of segment 1. Results: The growth of popular and solidarity microcredit placements in the province of Santa Elena has been discreet, even during periods of unfavorable externalities such as the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which its positive interannual variation was maintained. Conclusions: Popular and solidarity microcredit has placed resources in productive agents so that, based on principles of social, environmental, and solidarity responsibility, a distribution of resources is generated in disadvantaged agents, generating evidence of a model that generates economic development.

From branding to solidarity: The COVID-19 impact on marketing Strachítunt cheese from Val Taleggio, Italy

Branding, labelling and certification are the principal instruments for marketing heritage cheese in the Italian Alps. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has put considerable strain on these tools. In Val Taleggio, where the Protected Designation of Origin cheese Strachítunt is made, the cooperative of pro-ducers suffered a breakdown in access to markets during the lockdown of March–May 2020. Their strategy was to appeal directly to consumers, connecting digitally with solidarity economy networks such as Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (Solidarity Purchase Groups). Building on long-term ethnography, the article shows how this appeal brought to the surface a shared discourse and understanding of proximity and solidari-ty, which is not usually employed in the language of certification and labelling. © 2022, Zalozba ZRC. All rights reserved.

Reflections About Covid-19 and the Organization of the Recyclable Materials Collectors Organized in a Network: The Case of the Redesul Southwest Mg Network

The pandemic caused a global crisis with socioeconomic and public health consequences for the whole society. The collectors of recyclable materials are professionals at the forefront of the sanitation field and suffer economic impacts, in addition to being constantly at risk of contamination. The organization of the collectors of recyclable materials in networks is a strategy adopted by Associations and Cooperatives in search of strengthening and better working conditions and during the pandemic it has been fundamental for the socioeconomic maintenance for these workers. In this sense, this work seeks to present interdisciplinary reflections based on the analysis of the experiences of Redesul Southwest MG, the challenges and coping strategies adopted by that organization, as well as the articulations made with other actors in the recycling production chain in order to mitigate the losses caused by COVID - 19. A bibliographic survey and data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with the organization's representative, whose data were analyzed using the content analysis method. The results point to challenges in the area of health, financial maintenance, inefficiency of public policies and participation of the population. However, it was observed the power of the organization in the Network guided by the solidarity between the groups and the articulations with partners to face the challenges and fill the gaps left by the public power regarding the implementation of public policies.

‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK

As the Covid-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerabilities of our globalised agri-food system, local sustainable food alternatives, such as community-supported agriculture (CSA), are on the rise. In CSA local farmers and households co-produce food sustainably and independently of the market. CSA's benefits and shortcomings are well-understood but we know little about how larger CSA networks can expand and consolidate the practice at scale. This paper investigates the UK CSA network, showing its ability to upscale, outscale and downscale CSA through institutionalisation, replication and politicization, before discussing the network's strategic limitations and dependencies. © 2022 The Author

Transformative Communication Radar: Practices, Action and Praxis Communication in Solidarity Economy Networks in Portugal and Catalonia

This article explores the transformational character of solidarity economy network communication in Portugal and Catalonia, focusing on the first two months of the crisis brought on by COVID-19. We assume that what these networks choose to convey (or remain silent on) in their public communications reflects their positions in the fields of action and values and their theoretical alignment, establishing an ethico-political orientation. Through the analysis of virtual content conveyed by solidarity economy organisations, we analyse the topics covered, the types of content and sources cited, and the level of demand in the discourse, as well as their individual, institutional and collective character. The results reveal very different communicative approaches in each of the cases analysed: from silence or total absence of communicative practices to what can be considered a transformational praxis communication, based on collective action challenging the structures of power and domination and pointing out ways to overcome them. The article proposes a transformative communication radar linking Habermas’s theory of communicative action and Fuchs’s Marxist-inspired praxis communication concept, as a way of distinguishing merely instrumental communicative approaches from those guided by communicative and cooperative rationality driving new agreements and societal transformations.

Tendencies of Precision Agriculture in Ukraine: Disruptive Smart Farming Tools as Cooperation Drivers

Precision farming innovations are designed to improve the efficiency of agricultural activities via minimal initial input of material and human resources and avoiding harmful effects on the environment on one hand and automatizing the production on another hand, thus providing environmental, social and economic benefits. In the article, the tendencies in the adoption of precision agriculture technologies (PAT) in Ukraine were observed, with a specific focus on cooperatives as a valuable tool of social and solidarity economy helping to achieve progress in local rural development. On the example of cooperatives, applying a technology acceptance model (TAM) has identified how the adoption of new smart farming tools influence their behavior in implementing technological innovations. The results of the study will be of particular interest to representatives of other cooperatives and to agribusiness players engaged in agriculture or software development. In addition, the outputs will be useful for researchers in the field of the socio-economic development of territories and the impact of new technologies on it, as well as for local governments and higher-level government officials, which can contribute to the implementation of better rural development strategies.

Analysis of the Social Factors (PESTEL) of Popular and Solidarity Economy Enterprises Post Covid

The PEST analysis or also called PESTEL (political, economic, sociocultural, technological, ecological and legal) is a strategic planning tool to define a context,also serves to identify external factors in the business environment, currently contributing negatively to the creation or motivations of entrepreneurs in the popular and solidarity economy of Ecuador post covid, which is why, because of its importance the present research aims to identify the factors of the external environment of national companies in the period 2019–2021 that affect the development and performance of the ventures. The methodology used was developed based on secondary source of the central bank of Ecuador, year 2020, with descriptive and analytical level, as well as, a bibliographic documentary search of qualitative and quantitative character. The results obtained helped us to describe each of the factors that are affecting the creation of new entrepreneurship at the country level after the appearance of the pandemic of covid 19, as well as the disadvantages that it has brought to the Ecuadorian popular and solidarity economy. We conclude with the description of the environment of the popular and solidarity economy ventures by considering the elements, analysis of resources and the market that is fundamental for the start-up of a business as long as they are carried out following the basic parameters so that they become frameworks for action ideas. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Commercialization and Family Farming. The case of El Paseo de la Economia Social y Solidaria of the National University of La Plata: impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic and the ASPO in its territorial configuration

This article presents the experience of El Paseo de la Economia Social y Solidaria of the National University of La Plata in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic and "Mandatory Preventive Social Isolation" high-lighting in particular the situation of Family Farmers who participate in it. El Paseo de la Economia Social y Solidaria is a marketing experience in which organizations of horticultural producers of Family Farming participate, along with artisans, honey producers, food producers, etc. It has taken place since 2011, ascribes to the values of the Social and Solidarity Economy of the University Extension policy of the UNLP. As a result of the pandemic and the "Mandatory Preventive Social Isolation, "El Paseo" went from having fairs located in different UNLP premises to an expanded spatial configuration with more than a hundred delivery points (addresses) located in the center of the city and the neighborhoods. This transformation implies a significant change since although the number of consumers increases and the spatial dimension of the market is extended, the cultural aspects and social and community interaction that the nature of the fair implies are momentarily suspended. These changes in the spatial, economic and cultural dimensions reconfigure the territory, generating a new insertion of El Paseo in the city.