Public-Community Slaughterhouse of l’Armentera

Since 2022, we have been working with the Escorxador de l’Armentera SCCL cooperative to consolidate the municipal slaughterhouse as a key infrastructure for short food supply chains. Our work focuses on strengthening a public–community governance model that supports local farmers and butchers, and sustains family farms through a small-scale, local slaughterhouse.

We combine action research, strategic planning, communication, and collective learning processes, including public events such as Recuperem els petits escorxadors (Let’s Bring Back Small Slaughterhouses), as well as new initiatives like F.U.E.T. These actions aim to modernise the infrastructure, expand the social base of the cooperative, and assess the replicability of the model across other municipalities and networks of small-scale slaughterhouses.

  • Area: Economy and commons
  • Date: 2022 – Ongoing
  • Clients: Government of Catalonia (Projectes Singulars); Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
  • Collaboration: Escorxador de l’Armentera SCCL; Llavora Agropecuària; Guild of Butchers of Girona; ARCA; Coop57; and other actors within the territorial agroecological network.
  • Keywords: small-scale slaughterhouses, food sovereignty, short food supply chains, Social and Solidarity Economy
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