Bernd Bonfert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernd Bonfert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernd |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonfert |
| SIGNATURE | BONFERT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | EM Normandie Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8032-5424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transforming the capitalist food regime
Historical materialists explain that our capitalist ‘food regime’ is defined by global inequality, labour exploitation, food insecurity, and environmental degradation, contributing to a ‘metabolic rift’ between people and our environment. Yet, this regime is challenged by transformative alternatives, notably the practice of community-supported agriculture (CSA). CSA involves economic collaboration between producers and consumers, often including …
A tale of many cities
Inter-municipal food networks (IFNs) have become an increasingly prominent vehicle for local governments to develop more social and ecologically sustainable urban food strategies. IFNs are highly diverse, operating at different scales and specializing on different practices, from mutual exchange to policy advocacy, thereby offering a wide range of possibilities for local governments to develop transformative capacities. Yet, surprisingly little r…
A Question of Collaboration
Commons initiatives in the food and energy system, such as community-supported agriculture schemes and energy communities, are often praised for their contribution to decommodifying and democratising the provision of essential needs. However, such initiatives often remain limited in scope and accessibility due to their small size and inability to benefit from economies of scale. Many are thus building larger networks to diffuse their practices an…
Agrifood policy after Brexit
International audience
Democratizing Essential Reliance Systems
The increasingly obvious unsustainability of neoliberal capitalism creates an urgent need to understand how societies can meet their needs in a just and sustainable fashion. The new theoretical framework of the “Foundational Economy” may provide answers, as it explores a holistic transformation of essential reliance systems, such as food provision, energy, care, and housing. However, its conceptualization of democratic agency needs to be strength…
We like sharing energy but currently there's no advantage’
Rising energy costs expose the instability of our energy system and underline the urgency of transitioning towards decentralized renewable energy provision. Many European countries have tasked municipalities with driving this transition and the European Union has designated local energy communities to receive stronger support. Energy communities involve public, private or community actors in co-producing and distributing renewable energy. They ar…
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 i…
The real power must be in the base’ – Decentralised collective intellectual leadership in the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City
The ongoing commodification of housing and urban space in Europe has led to the formation of a burgeoning housing movement, consisting of large anti-eviction networks in Southern Europe, as well as tenants’ unions and right-to-the-city networks in Central and Northern Europe. These different forms of housing activism have become increasingly connected at the transnational level, primarily due to the work of the ‘European Action Coalition for the …
We need to organise millions of people’ – how Alter Summit and DiEM25 struggle to create a European ‘modern prince’
The European anti-austerity movement is generally associated with spawning leftist electoral projects, which exemplify the domestic institutionalization of activism. That the movement also generated a number of transnational coalitions with unusually broad and far-reaching ambitions remained somewhat under the radar. Projects like Alter Summit and DiEM25 seek to expand the anti-austerity movement’s struggle to the European level, by developing tr…
We like sharing energy but currently there's no advantage’
Rising energy costs expose the instability of our energy system and underline the urgency of transitioning towards decentralized renewable energy provision. Many European countries have tasked municipalities with driving this transition and the European Union has designated local energy communities to receive stronger support. Energy communities involve public, private or community actors in co-producing and distributing renewable energy. They ar…
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 i…
The real power must be in the base’ – Decentralised collective intellectual leadership in the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City
The ongoing commodification of housing and urban space in Europe has led to the formation of a burgeoning housing movement, consisting of large anti-eviction networks in Southern Europe, as well as tenants’ unions and right-to-the-city networks in Central and Northern Europe. These different forms of housing activism have become increasingly connected at the transnational level, primarily due to the work of the ‘European Action Coalition for the …
Agrifood policy after Brexit
International audience
We need to organise millions of people’ – how Alter Summit and DiEM25 struggle to create a European ‘modern prince’
The European anti-austerity movement is generally associated with spawning leftist electoral projects, which exemplify the domestic institutionalization of activism. That the movement also generated a number of transnational coalitions with unusually broad and far-reaching ambitions remained somewhat under the radar. Projects like Alter Summit and DiEM25 seek to expand the anti-austerity movement’s struggle to the European level, by developing tr…
The real power must be in the base’ – Decentralised collective intellectual leadership in the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City
The ongoing commodification of housing and urban space in Europe has led to the formation of a burgeoning housing movement, consisting of large anti-eviction networks in Southern Europe, as well as tenants’ unions and right-to-the-city networks in Central and Northern Europe. These different forms of housing activism have become increasingly connected at the transnational level, primarily due to the work of the ‘European Action Coalition for the …
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 i…
We like sharing energy but currently there's no advantage’
Rising energy costs expose the instability of our energy system and underline the urgency of transitioning towards decentralized renewable energy provision. Many European countries have tasked municipalities with driving this transition and the European Union has designated local energy communities to receive stronger support. Energy communities involve public, private or community actors in co-producing and distributing renewable energy. They ar…
Democratizing Essential Reliance Systems
The increasingly obvious unsustainability of neoliberal capitalism creates an urgent need to understand how societies can meet their needs in a just and sustainable fashion. The new theoretical framework of the “Foundational Economy” may provide answers, as it explores a holistic transformation of essential reliance systems, such as food provision, energy, care, and housing. However, its conceptualization of democratic agency needs to be strength…
A Question of Collaboration
Commons initiatives in the food and energy system, such as community-supported agriculture schemes and energy communities, are often praised for their contribution to decommodifying and democratising the provision of essential needs. However, such initiatives often remain limited in scope and accessibility due to their small size and inability to benefit from economies of scale. Many are thus building larger networks to diffuse their practices an…
Agrifood policy after Brexit
International audience
Transforming the capitalist food regime
Historical materialists explain that our capitalist ‘food regime’ is defined by global inequality, labour exploitation, food insecurity, and environmental degradation, contributing to a ‘metabolic rift’ between people and our environment. Yet, this regime is challenged by transformative alternatives, notably the practice of community-supported agriculture (CSA). CSA involves economic collaboration between producers and consumers, often including …
A tale of many cities
Inter-municipal food networks (IFNs) have become an increasingly prominent vehicle for local governments to develop more social and ecologically sustainable urban food strategies. IFNs are highly diverse, operating at different scales and specializing on different practices, from mutual exchange to policy advocacy, thereby offering a wide range of possibilities for local governments to develop transformative capacities. Yet, surprisingly little r…
Organic Food and Agriculture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Food security (3 works) · Food systems (3 works) · Geography (3 works)