We Don’t Want to Be Officially Certified! Reasons and Implications of the Participatory Guarantee Systems
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Cuéllar Padilla, María del Carmen
Ganuza-Fernandez, Ernesto
Editor
MDPIFecha
2018Materia
Localised food systemsOrganic certification
Food democratization
Food communities
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Official organic regulation in Europe is based on the third-party certification system to
guarantee organic products. Many critics and dissatisfactions have motivated the emergence of other
guarantee systems, based on an intense implication of producers and, in some cases, consumers
and other local actors, involved in localised agri-food systems. They are called Participatory
Guarantee Systems (PGS), and are not recognised as valid guarantee systems by the official organic
regulation. In the present paper, we analyse the main differences between the PGS and the third party
certification system, deepening on their differentiated social and political implications. We conclude
that the procedures behind PGS generate numerous positive impacts in the territories related to
local producers (and consumers) empowerment and localised agri-food systems drive, while their
implications make them not considered as a substitute to third party certification system, unless
certain conditions of social consolidated groups and agroecological and food sovereignty perspective
of food system take place.