A research project on a Local food system in Finland, Sweden & Latvia

Category: Food

  • Rethinking REKO Through Marketplace Mythologies

    Rethinking REKO Through Marketplace Mythologies

    In this blog post, I share some of my ideas about how the REKO local food network functions as a socio-material space shaped by powerful marketplace mythologies. My thinking is based on seeing these myths as the shared narratives and practices that influence what we see as “normal” or “good” in market life. REKO is…

  • Data is the new oil: The misalignment between Facebook’s values and the ethos of REKO

    In my previous blog post, I reflected on the uneasy relationship between REKO and Facebook, framing it as a dependency shaped by opaque algorithmic governance and platform power. That reflection ended with an open question: where do we go from here? Several months later, the answer remains unresolved, but it has become clearer that REKO’s…

  • Knowing the Food System Otherwise

    Knowing the Food System Otherwise

    We know what is broken in the food system. Recent research reports that we need ‘A great transformation’ (Rockström et al., 2025). However, it seems that we have landed in a continuation of a business-as-usualattitude, or, as some say, even come to a stop (Brunori et al., 2024). Thus, one may ask, are we no longer working in…

  • Collaborative consumption in REKO

    I wrote my master’s thesis about collaborative consumption in a REKO local food system. In this blog writing, I briefly discuss the main findings of my thesis. The purpose of the study was to analyse and identify how collaborative consumption builds a local food system. The study used the data collected in the Organizing REKO…