ABSTRACT
The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) can be understood as a kind of counter-culture, counter-economy, and expanded democracy. In 2010, the SEA founded the Urban Agriculture Network Basel Association (UAB), to enhance food production for the SSE and the urban space in general. Urban Agriculture Network Basel is to strengthen the SSE in its focus on local and environmental sustainability. In addition, the intent is to move the city of Basel toward a food policy based on "food sovereignty" as opposed to "food security". One way to generate social integration is for the federation to issue its own hour-based currency which facilitates exchanges between individuals within the SSE network. The social economy and Urban Agriculture Basel tandem have been part in building a pilot Community Supported Agriculture (CSA ) producer, consumer coop for cheese manufactured with solar power and from milk produced on land that can be used for nothing but grazing.
