{"id":341461,"date":"2026-01-28T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/?p=341461"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:21:37","slug":"socioeco-org-resources-for-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/socioeco-org-resources-for-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Socioeco.org resources for January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two new books are already figuring up on Socioeco.org at the start of this new year. \u201cA Modern Guide to the Social and Solidarity Economy<\/a>\u201d \u201cprovides an overview of the conceptual, historical, organizational, and developmental dimensions of the SSE, exploring current issues through the lenses of public policy, governance, finance, and legislation. Highlighting the SSE\u2019s transformative ability to mobilize communities and connect North\u2013South social debates, expert contributors analyse current arguments spanning tensions in hybrid organizations, internationalization, and networks and ecosystems governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cCo-operatives: Linking practice and theory<\/a>\u201d the SSE form of cooperatives is flashed out upon. \u201cWhat are co-operatives, and why do they exist? What\u2019s the difference between a co-operative and an investor-owned firm, or between a co-operative and social enterprise? Do co-operatives work, and are they political? Policy makers, researchers, academics and practitioners looking to expand their understanding of co-operative forms and structures, and the broader co-operative movement, will find answers to these questions and more\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, also on Socioeco.org it is visible, from new entries, that there remains \u2018much to do around food\u2019 in light of the potential for systemic change offered by a changing for our food systems, and two articles from Greece were added onto Socioeco.org focusing on food this month : \u201cAlternative Food Networks in Thessaloniki: Does sustainability go through the stomach?<\/a>\u201d, as well as \u201cThe Interconnection between Ecology and Direct Democracy in Alternative Food Networks<\/a>\u201d. \u201cThe literature of
\nAlternative Food Networks has engaged with ecological practices as well as decision-making. Nevertheless, it usually approaches ecology and democracy in Alternative Food Networks separately or as a sum of good practices, thus neglecting their interaction. The present article proposes a holistic approach of these practices under the lens of degrowth and post-development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also added onto Socioeco this month, is an article going back over the history of the coming to the adoption of the UN Resolution by also revisiting the history of RIPESS as a global movement for Solidarity economy – How 25 years of solidarity resulted in the adoption of the UN Resolution A\/RES\/77\/281<\/a>\u201d. This paper argues that it is an underlying spirit of \u00a0solidarity \u00a0that facilitated \u00a0the creation of an ecosystem of like-minded actors from UN agencies, governments and civil society that rendered possible a collective journey towards adoption of UN General Assembly Resolution A\/RES\/71\/281 on \u201cPromoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development\u201d of April 2023, and some multilateral and other advances for SSE since then.\u201d<\/p>\n

The above are resources recently put up on Socioeco.org. Searching for instance via thematic keywords on Socioeco.org<\/a> will lead the interested leader to yet other insights generated through the development of SSE solutions. You are also most welcome to send in your contributions! via this short online form<\/a> up on Socioeco.org. Thanks to everyone who did so already at the start of this new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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