ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of solidarity economy in transitions towards regenerative farming. It explores trends towards combining food production with soil restoration and attention to biodiversity, and their relationships with instances of collaborative organising in the agri-food sector, characterised by multi-stakeholder engagement and environmental concerns. The chapter explores how these two trends intersect in two case studies from Denmark and Portugal. It discusses unfolding processes in the agri-food domain, which move towards the social re-embedding of farming, and reciprocity between farmers and consumers, while at the same time moving towards more-than-human reciprocity through care for nature. To conclude, the chapter proposes that in the wake of current planetary challenges the solidarity economy movement is responding by embracing new shades of reciprocity – not only among people, but also between human and non-human nature, which in turn affects ways of socio-economic organising.
