Relational Structures Enabling Transformative actions in small-scale fishery supply chains facing coalescing changes (ReSET)

Food supply chains connecting producers with consumers need to develop transformative actions to ensure food system resilience and sustainability, while responding to diverse environmental and social changes.

This project fills the need to understand the capacities of food supply chains to persist, adapt and/or transform (i.e., their resilience capacities) and deal with such changes.

Specifically, it focuses on investigating the relationships between people, and between people and nature, herein named relational structures, that affect supply chain resilience.This project aims to understand how relational structures constitute resilience capacities that enable transformative responses towards sustainability.

To this end, it investigates a case study involving Small-Scale Fisheries supply chains in Galicia, Spain.

It develops a mixed-methods approach, where: i) narrative analysis of interview data investigates relational structures that shape resilience capacities; ii) participatory network mapping and analysis investigates interactions between diverse changes and responses; and iii) quantitative network analyses asses the role of relational structures for transformative responses.

Overall, the project will yield innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to understand food supply chain resilience.

It will foster the capacity of supply chains to face the myriad of changes that are affecting, simultaneously or sequentially, food systems.