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Journal articles on the topic "Food trade sustainability"
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Clapp, Jennifer. "The trade-ification of the food sustainability agenda." Journal of Peasant Studies 44, no. 2 (December 2, 2016): 335–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1250077.
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Mapes, Brendan R., Steven D. Prager, Christophe Béné, and Carlos Eduardo Gonzalez. "Healthy and sustainable diets from today to 2050—The role of international trade." PLOS ONE 17, no. 5 (May 18, 2022): e0264729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264729.
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The connection between international trade and food systems (un)sustainability is both contentious and critical for policy work supporting progress towards achieving the twin goals of hunger alleviation and dietary health while improving the overall sustainability of development. We characterize the food system using a set of metrics based upon the EAT-Lancet commission dietary guidelines for both over- and under-consumption of different foods to assess country-level dietary health and sustainability in tandem. Using a partial equilibrium model of agricultural production and trade, we then project the functioning of the global agricultural system to 2050 and calculate the metrics for that year. For most regions we find increased overconsumption above the expert-defined healthy and sustainable diet thresholds, with more limited progress towards closing dietary health and sustainability gaps where they currently exist. Trade influences this dynamic into the future under certain socioeconomic conditions, and we find that under a “business as usual” trade environment, future agricultural import profiles continue to be misaligned with dietary health and sustainability outcomes, suggesting the potential for early intervention in trade policy as a means to positively influence food system outcomes.
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White, Robin R. "26 Complementary Roles for Genetic Selection and Population Dynamics in Enhancing Livestock Sustainability." Journal of Animal Science 100, Supplement_3 (September 21, 2022): 14–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skac247.026.
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Abstract Over the past several years, there has been considerable international dialog surrounding the importance of enhancing the sustainability of global food production systems to meet the demands of the growing global population. Internationally, sustainable food production systems are defined as those which contribute to food and nutrition security while safeguarding the economic, social, cultural, and environmental bases of food production for future generations. Although animal agriculture often has strong cultural roots around the world, there are challenges related to the environmental impacts of animal products, the social acceptability of production practices, and the affordability of animal-source foods which present opportunities for improvement. Historical advancements in the affordability and environmental footprints of animal-source foods highlight the tremendous impacts of genetic selection for enhanced productivity on animal-source food sustainability metrics. Continued emphasis on genetic selection as a tool to address sustainability objectives may be an essential strategy to continue enhancing the role of animal source foods in contributing to a sustainable and secure global food system. However, systems dynamics modeling demonstrates trade-offs between the rate of genetic progress and aspects of sustainability like environmental impact and social acceptance. These trade-offs are largely driven by the generation interval and assumptions surrounding the fate of animals culled either early in life or during mid-career due to undesirable genetics. Exploring alternative production systems which make better use of cull animal populations presents a strategy to address some of these trade-offs. To better explore these factors in tandem, the objectives of this work are to review the historical improvements in animal genetic merit and the impact on sustainability of animal-source foods; to explore future selection strategies and how they may support continued sustainability enhancement; and to highlight the complementary roles of population dynamics and genetic selection in enhancing livestock sustainability.
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Vasin, S. G. "Ways of Providing Competitive Sustainability of Trade-Food Companies." Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, no. 3 (June 8, 2022): 204–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2022-3-204-216.
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Trends and ways of providing competitive sustainability of trade-food companies that are adequate to the current social and economic situation on the market make up the most acute goal of research aiming at their immediate implementation by business. Provision of competitive sustainability should touch upon all spheres of trade-food company work: from the product range, shaping and promoting the offer to rendering the required services and further servicing. This process is an integral part of the proposed new model to be implemented by participants of food market on the basis of principles relevant to today’s conditions. First of all it is building up of competitive behavior on market based on systemacity, reliability, flexibility; attraction of a great deal of customers based on service, feedback; increase in profits based on principles of optimization, efficiency; growth in the market share based on computerization, high automation of processes, integration, etc. And the key factor of success on food market is the ability of participants to increase market cover, customers, receipts and profits with cost cutting. The article studies theoretical foundations of competitive sustainability of trade-food companies; analyzes competitiveness of food market of the Russian Federation; puts forward methods of providing competitive sustainability of trade-food companies.
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Calvin, James R. "Global Trade Transformation for Enhanced Food Sustainability in 2030." World Futures Review 6, no. 4 (December 2014): 460–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1946756715569228.
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Bojnec, Stefan, and Imre Ferto. "Agro-food trade sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe." International Journal of Sustainable Economy 1, no. 1 (2008): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijse.2008.020019.
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Pietrzyck, Katja, Sebastian Jarzębowski, and Brigitte Petersen. "Exploring Sustainable Aspects Regarding the Food Supply Chain, Agri-Food Quality Standards, and Global Trade: An Empirical Study among Experts from the European Union and the United States." Energies 14, no. 18 (September 21, 2021): 5987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14185987.
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Sustainability is increasingly a priority in the policies of the European Union, especially in the Common Agricultural Policy. This paper focuses on Sustainable Development Goals, the European Green Deal, and the Farm to Fork Strategy in an attempt to establish a relationship with the European Union’s trade policy. Three selected components of the agri-food sector—the food supply chain, agri-food quality standards, and global trade—are examined in relation to defined sustainability aspects. The aim is to understand the interrelationship between the three components with specific regard to sustainability, to highlight their high complexity and current relevance, to contribute to systematic analysis in this area, and to present current progress. This qualitative–explorative study is empirically supported by a survey of market experts, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and the United States is used as an example. The results show the complexity between the relationships of the three components with a focus on sustainability and reveal a deep uncertainty. The most notable results are the limited level of knowledge and the insufficient attention from business representatives to sustainability aspects. Finally, the study identifies the state of integrating a sustainable perspective into European Union trade policy and provides suggestions for further research.
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Rabbi, Mohammad Fazle, Morshadul Hasan, and Sándor Kovács. "Food Security and Transition towards Sustainability." Sustainability 13, no. 22 (November 11, 2021): 12433. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212433.
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In the light of linkages in various scales and targets, the complex and nuanced design of the sustainable development goals (SDG) raises more challenges in their implementation on the ground. This paper reviewed 25 food security indicators, proposed improvements to facilitate operationalization, and illustrated practical implementation. The research focused on three essential blind spots that arise from the potential interactions between sustainable food production, consumption, and domestic material consumption (DMC). Projection of latent structure regression was applied to link food security and sustainable development goals. Findings revealed that the key target in reducing trade-offs was the integration of DMC with sustainable food production and consumption. DMC was positively correlated with the creation of coherent SDG strategies and sustainable food security. Practical implications were discussed by highlighting how to achieve food security across contrasting development contexts and the challenges of addressing the links between targets and indicators within and beyond SDGs 2 and 12. The results are useful for setting a proper strategy for sustainable production and consumption that can improve the efficient use of resources in the eight Central European countries.
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Strid, Anna, Elinor Hallström, Ulf Sonesson, Josefin Sjons, Anna Winkvist, and Marta Bianchi. "Sustainability Indicators for Foods Benefiting Climate and Health." Sustainability 13, no. 7 (March 24, 2021): 3621. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13073621.
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New methods for combined evaluation of nutritional and environmental aspects of food products are needed to enable a transformation of dietary guidelines integrating both health and environmental perspectives. We evaluated two sustainability aspects; nutrition and climate impact, of foods commonly consumed in Sweden and the implications of using parallel or integrated assessments of these two aspects, also discussing the usability and suitability of these food sustainability indicators in relation to Swedish dietary guidelines, industry food product development, and consumer communication. There were large differences in both nutrient density and climate impact among the different foods. The parallel assessment easily visualized synergies and trade-offs between these two sustainability aspects for the different foods. Coherence with dietary guidelines was good, and suitability and usability deemed satisfying. The integrated indicator showed better coherence with dietary guidelines than indicators based solely on nutrient density or climate impact; however, the difficulty to interpret the score limits its usability in product development and consumer communication. With both methods, advantageous as well as less advantageous plant-based and animal-based food alternatives were suggested. The two alternative methods evaluated could serve as useful tools to drive individual and societal development towards more sustainable food production and consumption.
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Roberts, Simon. "Competition, trade, and sustainability in agriculture and food markets in Africa." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 39, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 147–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac041.
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Abstract Food and agriculture accounts for around one-third of global emissions reflecting the effects of consumption in high-income countries on production and land use around the world. These effects include those transmitted through international trade such as in the constituents of animal feed for meat. African countries face a dual challenge of adapting to the growing effects of climate change in the shape of extreme weather, and increasing agriculture and food production as part of developing their economies. At the same time, there is increasing concentration in the production and trading of agriculture and food products, globally and within Africa. This article considers the interaction of concentration and responses to climate change in food markets through a focus on meat and animal feed, and the developments in maize and soybeans in East and Southern Africa. The possible role for competition policy as part of a wider reform agenda is proposed.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Food trade sustainability"
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Macdonald, Lesley. "Communicating with the ethical-religious consumer : food miles and food sustainability perspectives." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2013. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/3001/.
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Meyer, Samantha. "Time to Get Real: A Food Assessment of Dining at Pomona College." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/8.
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Pomona College is an institution deeply committed to sustainability and student well being; however these commitments are not reflected in the College’s food purchases. Before this study, an assessment of purchasing had not been conducted at Pomona College. Using the Real Food Calculator – a metric designed to evaluate food purchasing at academic institutions – I tracked all food purchased by one of the College’s dining halls over the course of one month. Each food item was assessed based on the potential health concerns of its ingredients and whether the item was locally produced, ecologically sound and/or humane to determine whether it should be considered Real. The assessment metric also lists ingredients with potential health concerns (including trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, and others), which if present in the food item mean it cannot be considered Real.
Of the over $150,000 worth of food purchases made during the study, 8.9% qualified as Real Food. Each food that qualified as Real Food met the standards for at least one of the attributes (local, ecologically sound, or humane). A total of 2.1% of all food purchases qualified for two attributes. Of the foods assessed, over one third contained ingredients considered harmful to human health. If Pomona is serious about its commitments to sustainability and student well being, it is time to include food purchasing in these discussions. The study concludes with a series of recommendations to improve food purchasing at Pomona College.
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Cortes-Lobos, Rodrigo. "Nanotechnology research in the US agri-food sectoral system of innovation: toward sustainable development." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47541.
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Nanotechnology, the scientific study of manipulating matter on an atomic scale (1 to 100 nanometers) that provides new properties in materials and devices had received considerable research attention and public funding support during the last decade in the US. This emerging technology promises to improve the competitiveness of most of the US industrial sectors. Malerba (2004) an innovation system researcher has developed the theoretical framework "Sectoral System of Innovation (SSI)" to study the process by which new technologies and knowledge are produced and transferred to industrial sectors, where actors interact based on an institutional framework to generate innovation processes.
In this dissertation I studied the agriculture and food processing sector, which is a key sector of the US economy that has provided with enough food for the US population, but in an unsustainable way that has harmed the environment, natural resources and human health. The US agrifood sector is facing new challenges of increasing food demand, which need to be addressed in a more sustainable way that takes consideration on economic, environment, and social aspects. The main questions that this dissertation research focuses on studying how much attention the public nanotechnology agrifood research agenda has paid to sustainability issues during the last decade in the US and what role has played the system's actors in influencing this research agenda. The analysis of the policy process in which system's actors try to influence the research agenda is framed in the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier 1993) that complemented the Sectoral System of Innovation approach in studying the formation of advocacy groups to achieve their coalition's policy goals.
Three data sources were utilized to achieve my research goals, the CNS-ASU nanotechnology publications dataset 2000-2010(Porter A, Youtie J et al. 2007; De Bellis 2009)which was used to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the agrifood nanotechnology research publications in the US, semi-structured interviews with key actors and their interaction in advocacy coalition groups, and a literature review of several official documents and public hearing with respect to the US nanotechnology system to evaluate the influence of advocacy groups in the policy process. Utilizing Vantage point data mining and Nvivo qualitative analysis software I conducted the data analysis of my research. The results show increasing research attention toward environmental research and food safety issues that can indirectly impact positively on sustainability development, as well as increasing research attention in studying environmental, health and safety issues (EHS) that can reduce potential risks.
The analysis of actors' interaction to influence the policy process, two advocacy coalitions was identified. On one side, a coalition that advocate for more research funding oriented to applied research to achieve the potential that this coalition members believe this technology has to revolutionize the way food is produced giving more competitiveness to the US agrifood sector, this coalition is composed by researchers, federal agency managers and industry representatives. On the other side, a rival coalition that raise concerns respect to potential risks associated to this technology that required to be addressed by the public research agenda. This coalition mainly composed by environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other social actors claim for a regulatory framework that guarantee a nanotechnology development environmental friendly that benefit the society.
The influence of these two coalitions have succeed in allocating more federal funding resources to research nanotechnology in the agrifood sector, with particular emphasis in EHS research that show the right path to a sustainable development that guarantee enough resources for the future generations.
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Schmitt, Valentina Gomes Haensel. "As dimensões da sustentabilidade nas relações de poder: O Comércio Justo no setor alimentício brasileiro." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/9371.
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This research aimed to describing and explaining how economic, social and environmental dimensions influence on power relations, within the certified Brazilian Fair Trade food sector. The present thesis is that sustainability dimensions – economic, social and environmental – influence on power relations on organizations, with distinct impacts. The theoretical background to analyze power relations evolved the conjugation of theories of dependence of resources, bounded rationality, transaction costs and relation amongst power and justice. The study demonstrates how the mentioned dimensions intervene and, thus the analysis is composed by: 1. conflicts along Fair Trade´s insertion in Brazil; 2. the structuring of networks and partnerships; 4. the use of discourses; 5. the role of technologies and resources; 6. price; 7. the understanding about justice. The study is characterized as qualitative, being descriptive and interpretative. The data collection involved: 1. bibliographical, documental and internet researches – specially by the use of google alerts tool; 3. interviews; and 4. field research. Sample was composed by nineteen representatives from organizations inserted on the certified food producers context. Data collection had a longitudinal approach. Discursive analysis from the interview content was done and it resulted from readings and triangulations between research objectives, theoretical background and found results. It was concluded that there is partiality on the relations, which are affected mostly by economic dimension interferences. The dependence of resources allows the existence of asymmetrical relations. Technologies and knowledge, due to social dimension, are tools to: 1. reduce differences among actors; 2. offer an effective differential, which is not supported only by certification. Configuration of organizations, partnerships and networks is liable to asymmetries reduction, when people's need and specific knowledge are understood; and, therefore, the relevance of social dimension. Environmental variable is relevant, chiefly in terms of resources and productive processes. However, the environmental dimension generates higher interferences when there is: 1. awareness about its relevance; 2. social and market demands for processes adaptations. Nonetheless, environmental interferences on power relations are generated mostly, from the social and economic dimensions. Therefore, we conclude that the mentioned thesis is validated, since there is distinction of impact and interferences of sustainability dimensions, on power relations among the studied organizations.
A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo descrever e explicar como as dimensões econômica, social e ambiental interferem nas relações de poder setor alimentício brasileiro certificado Comércio Justo. A tese defendida é de que as dimensões da sustentabilidade – econômica, social e ambiental – interferem nas relações de poder entre organizações, tendo abrangência de impacto distintas. A base teórica de análise das relações de poder envolveu a conjunção entre as teorias de dependência de recursos, racionalidade limitada, custos de transação e a relação entre justiça e poder. O estudo demonstra como ocorrem interferências das dimensões elencadas, sendo a análise realizada a partir de: 1. conflitos ao longo da inserção d o Comércio Justo no Brasil; 2. estruturação das redes e parcerias; 4. uso de discursos; 5. papel de tecnologias e recursos; 6. preço; 7. entendimentos sobre justiça. O estudo é de cunho qualitativo, assumindo o caráter descritivo e interpretativo. A coleta de dados foi realizada por intermédio de: 1. pesquisa bibliográfica; 2. investigação documental e na internet – notadamente com auxílio da ferramenta alertas do google; 3. entrevistas; 4. pesquisa de campo. A amostra foi composta por dezenove representantes de organizações, inseridas no contexto dos produtores de alimentos certificados. A coleta teve o corte longitudinal. Realizou- se a análise discursiva, do conteúdo das entrevistas. A análise de dados resultou de leituras e triangulações diversas entre objetivos da pesquisa, referencial teórico e resultados da pesquisa. Como resultado do estudo, concluiu-se que há parcialidade nas relações, sendo afetadas predominantemente por interferências da dimensão econômica. A dependência em recursos proporciona relações assimétricas. Tecnologias e conhecimentos, por intermédio da dimensão social, servem de instrumentos para: 1. minorar as diferenças entre os atores; 2. proporcionar um diferencial efetivo, que não apoiado exclusivamente na certificação. A configuração de organizações, parcerias e redes é passível de redução de assimetrias, quando compreendidas necessidades de pessoas, conhecimentos específicos e, portanto, da relevância da dimensão social. A variável ambiental é relevante, sobretudo em termos de recursos e processos produtivos. Porém, o impacto da dimensão ambiental gera interferências superiores, quando há: 1. a conscientização sobre sua relevância; 2. demandas sociais e de mercado por adaptações em processos. Logo, interferências do meio ambiente nas relações de poder são originárias, principalmente, daquelas de caráter social e econômico. Conclui-se, portanto, que há validade na tese da existência de distinção no impacto e interferências das dimensões da sustentabilidade, nas relações de poder entre organizações.
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Lindgren, Sophie, and Amanda Tuvhag. "Corporate Social Responsibility : The future of business or just a beautiful surface?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-19837.
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Master Thesis in Marketing,SchoolofBusinessandEconomicsat Linnaeus University, spring 2012 Authors: Sophie Lindgren and Amanda Tuvhag Title: Corporate Social Responsibility – A successful business strategy or just a trend? Purpose: First of all, this thesis wants to describe managers’ expectations regarding customers’ perception about their retail stores CSR initiatives and furthermore their implemented CSR initiatives. Secondly, to describe customer awareness and engagement towards retail stores CSR initiatives. Finally, to compare the results from retail store and customers, in purpose to identify possible gaps between these two. Research questions:RQ1: What expectations regarding customers’ perception of retail stores CSR initiatives do manager of such stores have and how do they perform CSR activities? RQ2: How aware are customer regarding retail stores CSR initiative and what level of engagement do customer have concerning retail stores CSR activities? Method: The empirical material is based on both a quantitative and a qualitative investigation. The quantitative investigation is the main study and contains of a customer survey whereby the collected sample consist of 150 respondents. A pilot study have been conducted in order to improve the intension of the survey. Further, the qualitative investigation contains five in-depth semi-strucutred interviews with local store managers of the selected retail stores. Conclusion: Customer thinks retail stores CSR initiatives are important, but they seldom support them. Retail store expect customers to value CSR products/action low in relation to other factors, but retail store are engaging themselves in several CSR actions. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), marketing strategy, business ethics, sustainability, reputation, food industry, retailers, gap-model, perception, customer, retail store industry, expectation, environmentally certified, ecological products, fair trade.
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Serban, Anca. "Integrated or monofunctional landscapes? : agent-based modelling for evaluating the socioeconomic implications of land use interventions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277688.
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The effectiveness of land sharing and land sparing (LS/LS) approaches to conservation in the face of rising agricultural demands has been widely debated. While numerous studies have investigated the LS/LS framework from an ecological lens (yield-biodiversity relationship) the relevance of the framework to real life depends on broader considerations. Some of the key caveats include: i) limited knowledge regarding the feasibility of interventions given diverse stakeholders’ interests, ii) the social acceptability (uptake) of these contrasting strategies to direct land users, and iii) limited knowledge regarding their impacts on individuals’ livelihoods and food security. Without considering these social science dimensions proponents of the framework risk an incomplete picture that is not grounded in local realities and can paradoxically force into opposition the very conservation and development interests they seek to reconcile. Using a Companion Modelling approach, which comprises the development of a role-playing game (RPG) and an agent-based model (ABM), this thesis addressed these caveats. The research was based in the Nilgiris of Western Ghats India, a tropical agricultural system at the forest frontier. The main findings show that through engaging local stakeholders in a participatory process, plausible land use strategies that align with their objectives could be identified. Stakeholders proposed three land use interventions. Two of them resemble a form of land sparing (‘monofunctional’ landscapes) on the farms: sparing land for Wildflower Meadows or Tree Plantations while increasing yield on the remaining land. The third intervention asks farmers to accept yield penalties for Intercropping more trees on their farms, a form of land sharing (‘integrated’ landscapes). In terms of decision-making regarding the adoption of these three interventions by direct land users, the study reveals several findings. Firstly there are three main types of motivations that influence farmers’ decision to adopt interventions, in order of importance: monetary benefits, pro-environmental motivations and social norms. Secondly, land use, the type of management preferred on the farm and whether land users accept trees on the farm or not are factors that influence what type of interventions is socially acceptable on individual farms. These factors have been detected in the in-depth household survey and also validated by the RPG. When assessing the adoption of the three interventions, ex ante their implementation, using an ABM, there are some important differences observed between the interventions. Wildflower Meadows is the intervention adopted by the largest number of households, whereas Intercropping is adopted across the largest area of land. Forest Plantations is significantly more unpopular than the other two interventions. The third line of investigation, about the outcomes of adoption, has important policy implications. Adding a socioeconomic dimension to the ecological one adds a level of complexity and creates a less straightforward choice between the LS/LS strategies. None of the three interventions can provide optimal outcomes for production, aspects of biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and food security. Each intervention has indicators that score better compared to the other two interventions. The findings demonstrate that the ecological focus of the LS/LS framework is insufficient to deal with real-world complexities and lends itself to overly simplistic policy prescriptions. More meaningful policies could be achieved when bridging natural and social sciences to better understand the merits and limitations of the LS/LS approaches.
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Cottrell, RS. "Bridging the land-sea divide : links, interactions, and trade-offs for food security and sustainability." Thesis, 2020. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/34875/1/Cottrell_whole_thesis_ex_pub_mat.pdf.
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Ensuring food security for a human population growing towards 10 billion under the pressures of demographic, social and climate change is a huge challenge. Advances across all terrestrial and aquatic food sectors are necessary for more efficient and sustainable production. Agriculture produces the majority of human food, but capture fisheries are crucial for the nutrition and livelihoods of many, and aquaculture will necessary if we are to supply increasing global demands for fish. However, research and policy directed toward improving food security are largely siloed within food sectors. Using data synthesis and modelling approaches, this thesis explores the range of links and interactions among terrestrial and aquatic food sectors and their significance for sustainable development. I show how terrestrial and aquatic food systems interact through interdependencies for animal feeds, shared space or the flow of natural subsidies, linked human resource use, and feedbacks with the climate. By switching to novel ingredients such as algae or insects, I demonstrate how fed aquaculture can substantially reduce its demand for small pelagic ‘forage’ fish used as feed, even after accounting for trade-offs for fish growth and human health benefits. I address the risks of single-sector perspectives to food systems research by highlighting how the drivers of sudden production losses (such as extreme weather) can unexpectedly displace human resource use, or create linked challenges for adaptation, across land and sea. Further, I illustrate how changing human consumption can shift food demands across the land-sea divide, illuminating challenges, and opportunities for sustainability. Ultimately, this thesis highlights how single-sector approaches to food system research can create blind-spots in our understanding of sustainability and how threats may be propagated or diffused across land and sea.
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Seidel, Jennifer. "Cultivating the Three Sisters: Haudenosaunee foodways and acculturative change in the fur trade economy." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7525.
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This study examines Haudenosaunee foodways in the Great Lakes Region between the early seventeenth century and the mid to late eighteenth century. The study is divided into two parts. First, the Creation Story is explored as it transmits the origin of the Three Sisters, a cropping system of inter-planted corn, beans and squash. The teachings of the Three Sisters highlights the importance of polyculture and sustainability. Conversely, a Westerners’ scientific account of how the Three Sisters came to be farmed together is studied. The independent pathways of the corn, beans and squash is examined as they arrived in New York State from the Mexico highlands. Recent findings show the Three Sisters were adopted independently in eastern North America beginning around A.D. 1300. They were grown together in some locations on a regular basis. The adoption of the polycultural complex of the Three Sisters was gradual and took place approximately 700 years ago as each of the crops adjusted to the climate and new surroundings. Secondly, the relationship between food, specifically the Three Sisters and acculturative change are examined pre-and-post contact. Acculturative change occurs when two independent cultures comes into contact with one another. The degree of influence is not equal as one culture can be absorbed, shaped or influenced more strongly by the other culture. The Haudenosaunee culture underwent acculturative change because the fur trade economy affected their foodways due to the influx of European goods such as the brass kettle and encroachment on their land and hunting grounds. The Haudenosaunee retained the core of their cultural beliefs and cultural practices because they made decisions, specifically their selection of goods and agricultural practices, as an extension of their cultural beliefs. Acculturative change resulted in a more monocropped and creolized agricultural system, usage of draft animals, fruit orchards and the plow. This study lies at the intersection of ethnohistory and food history. This study will serve as a tool to analyze and understand Haudenosaunee historical experiences from a First Nations cultural perspective.Graduate
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Sithole, Khethokuhle Antoinette. "Employee perceptions towards green supply chain management in Gauteng starch and glucose processing industries." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26028.
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Text in EnglishSupply chains incorporate “green” principles in their processes to promote environmental sustainability. Through an online survey, this study investigated green supply chain management (GSCM) implementation and employee awareness of GSCM initiatives in five starch and glucose processing companies in Gauteng. Eighty employees working in management and supervisory positions participated in the study by completing an online questionnaire. The research findings indicated that employees are aware of environmental goals and targets, environmental policies, legislation and standards, and green designing initiatives implemented. Employees perceive that collaboration with suppliers and contractors on environmental issues is in place, however, government partnerships are perceived as being insufficient. Benefits of green marketing campaigns and GSCM initiatives have not been identified. The study noted resistance to change, lack of adoption of technology advancement, insufficient communication and training, and cost implications as barriers hindering GSCM success. It is, therefore, recommended that appropriate support and communication regarding GSCM initiatives are strengthened.
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Books on the topic "Food trade sustainability"
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Cheryl, Baldwin, ed. Sustainability in the food industry. Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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Devon food heroes. Wellington: Halsgrove, 2012.
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Lawrence, Geoffrey. Food security, nutrition and sustainability. Sterling, VA: EARTHSCAN, 2010.
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Moscicki, Leszek. Extrusion-cooking techniques: Applications, theory and sustainability. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2011.
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Handbook of sustainability for the food sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
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Clare, Hinrichs C., and Lyson Thomas A, eds. Remaking the North American food system: Strategies for sustainability. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
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Kristen, Lyons, and Wallington Tabatha, eds. Food security, nutrition and sustainability. Sterling, VA: EARTHSCAN, 2010.
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Ionescu-Somers, Aileen. Business logic for sustainability: A food and beverage industry perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Ionescu-Somers, Aileen. Business logic for sustainability: A food and beverage industry perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Keith, Lierre. The vegetarian myth: Food, justice and sustainability. Crescent City, Ca: Flashpoint Press, 2009.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "Food trade sustainability"
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Zimmermann, Andrea, and George Rapsomanikis. "Trade and Sustainable Food Systems." In Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 685–709. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_36.
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AbstractTrade is an integral part of our food systems. It connects people at all stages of agricultural and food value chains, linking farmers with consumers across the world. It also links nations to each other, and thus scales up from the domestic to the global perspective. By moving food from surplus to deficit regions, trade promotes food security, the diversity of foods available, and can affect preferences and diets. Trade impacts food prices and the allocation of resources, and thus is inherent to economic growth and interacts with the environment. At the same time, trade can create both winners and losers, resulting in inequality, and can generate negative social and environmental outcomes. This chapter provides an overview of the current debate around trade in food and agriculture and illustrates the role that trade can play within food systems in balancing different dimensions of sustainability. While trade openness is generally conducive to food security and promotes economic growth, formulating trade policies to achieve multiple targets, including environmental, nutritional and social objectives, requires careful analysis. Trade policies may not be the best and most efficient instruments for achieving multiple objectives, and they should be framed by complementary policies targeting specific aspects of sustainability. For example, in addressing climate change, one of today’s most pressing challenges, a combination of food trade and domestic policy instruments can sharpen the adaptation and mitigation roles of trade and significantly contribute to promoting the adoption of climate-smart technologies. In order to effectively design such policies, a better understanding of both the complex linkages between trade and sustainability outcomes and the simultaneous impacts of policy approaches on all parts of the food system will be necessary.
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Taghouti, Ibtissem, Mohamed Elloumi, Victor Martinez-Gomez, and José María García Álvarez-Coque. "Food Security, Competitiveness and Trade: The Case of Tunisian Agriculture." In Food Security and Sustainability, 209–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40790-6_12.
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Lazaro, Evelyne, Lone Riisgaard, Fredy Kilima, Jeremiah Makindara, and Raymond Mnenwa. "Sustainability Standards and Agro-Food Exports from East Africa." In Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards, 120–35. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230281356_6.
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Tatuev, Arsen A., Natalia N. Kiseleva, Murat A. Kerefov, Semen A. Sklyarenko, and Lubov V. Zubareva. "Developmental Prospects for Food Trade in World Markets." In The Challenge of Sustainability in Agricultural Systems, 641–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73097-0_72.
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Allan, J. A. "Water, Food and Trade as an Element of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the MENA Region." In Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East, 45–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48920-9_3.
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Niggli, Urs, Martijn Sonnevelt, and Susanne Kummer. "Pathways to Advance Agroecology for a Successful Transformation to Sustainable Food Systems." In Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 341–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_18.
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AbstractAgroecology is a powerful strategy that reduces the trade-offs between productivity and sustainability. It promotes the diversity of crops and livestock, fields, farms and landscapes, which together are key to improving the sustainability of food and farming systems in terms of long-term productivity, food actors’ empowerment and inclusion and environmental health. Agroecology is a bundle of measures taken by farmers that, individually or combined, mobilize biodiversity and ecosystem services for productivity. Ideally, it leads to economically and ecologically resilient production systems that are high-yielding. It does not necessarily mean a predefined farming system, and the shift from simplified by industrial standards to agroecological farms is gradual. The transformation and upscaling of agroecological practices requires changes that affect not only the management of farms, or production and consumption patterns at the food system level, but also the institutional framework conditions and the way in which we measure the performance of agricultural and food systems. In our chapter, we describe four domains of transformation – knowledge systems, markets, collaborations and policy coherence – each with enabling and constraining factors.
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Le Velly, Ronan, and Marc Moraine. "Agencing an innovative territorial trade scheme between crop and livestock farming: the contributions of the sociology of market agencements to alternative agri-food network analysis." In Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition, 65–78. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18560-1_5.
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Cozzi, Mario, Severino Romano, Mauro Viccaro, Carmelina Prete, and Giovanni Persiani. "Wildlife Agriculture Interactions, Spatial Analysis and Trade-Off Between Environmental Sustainability and Risk of Economic Damage." In The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin, 209–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16357-4_14.
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Hendriks, Sheryl, Jean-François Soussana, Martin Cole, Andrew Kambugu, and David Zilberman. "Ensuring Access to Safe and Nutritious Food for All Through the Transformation of Food Systems." In Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 31–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_4.
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AbstractAction Track 1 of the Food Systems Summit offers an opportunity to bring together the crucial elements of food safety, nutrition, poverty and inequalities in the framework of food systems within the context of climate and environmental change to ensure that all people have access to a safe and nutritious diet. Achieving Action Track 1’s goal is essential to achieving the goals of the other Action Tracks. With less than a decade left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), most countries are not on a course to hit either the World Health Organisation’s nutrition targets or the SDG 2 targets. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated malnutrition and highlighted the need for food safety. The pandemic has also exposed the deep inequalities in both food systems and societies as a whole. Nonetheless, future food systems can address many of these failings and ensure safe and nutritious food for all. However, structural change is necessary to address the socio-economic drivers behind malnutrition, inequalities and the climate and environmental impacts of food. Adopting a whole-system approach in policy, research and monitoring and evaluation is crucial for managing trade-off and externalities from farm-level to national scales and across multiple sectors and agencies. Supply chain failures will need to be overcome and technology solutions adopted and adapted to specific contexts. A transformation of food systems requires coordinating changes in supply and demand in differentiated ways across world regions: bridging yield gaps and improving livestock feed conversion, largely through agro-ecological practices, deploying soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation at scale, and reducing food loss and waste, as well as addressing over-nourishment and shifting the diets of wealthy populations. The sustainability of global food systems also requires halting the expansion of agriculture into fragile ecosystems, while restoring degraded forests, fisheries, rangelands, peatlands and wetlands. Shifting to more sustainable consumption and production patterns within planetary boundaries will require efforts to influence food demand and diets, diversify food systems, and develop careful land-use planning and management. Integrative policies need to ensure that food prices reflect real costs (including major externalities caused by climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss, and the public health impacts of malnutrition), reduce food waste and, at the same time, ensure the affordability of safe and healthy food and decent incomes and wages for farmers and food system workers. The harnessing of science and technology solutions and the sharing of actionable knowledge with all players in the food system offer many opportunities. Greater coordination of food system stakeholders is crucial for greater inclusion, greater transparency and more accountability. Sharing lessons and experiences will foster adaptive learning and responsive actions. Careful consideration of the trade-offs, externalities and costs of not acting is needed to ensure that the changes we make benefit all, and especially the most vulnerable in society.
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Laborde, David, and Maximo Torero. "Modeling Actions for Transforming Agrifood Systems." In Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 105–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_7.
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AbstractWe modeled six interventions to study the scenarios’ impact on agrifood systems, undernutrition, access to healthy diets, and the environment. We also assessed the interventions as a group to consider the impact of synergies and complementarities. Our baseline showed that 690 million people were undernourished, and 3 billion people could not afford healthy diets in 2019. The first finding confirmed that ending chronic hunger at a 5% level by 2030 is possible, with key structural interventions to ramp up agrifood systems’ efficiency. Through increased farm productivity and reduction of food loss and waste, the number of chronically hungry people could be cut by 314 million. In addition, 568 million people would be able to afford healthy diets by 2030. The cost of ending hunger represents 8% of the size of global food markets, a sum that can be mobilized and invested to generate impact through food value chains, national economies, and social safety nets. Furthermore, the use of well-targeted social safety nets could provide an additional 2.4 billion people with access to healthy diets. The second critical finding was that various interventions could create synergies. This would become apparent through addressing different causes of hunger. Moreover, aiming to minimize the total cost of interventions and seeking, at the same time, the highest return interventions in terms of reduction of undernourishment and an increase in access to healthy diets could create significant trade-offs in regard to sustainability. Countries would have to redistribute $1.4 trillion annually to fill the income gap of the 3 billion people who cannot afford healthy diets. However, by investing in various interventions, countries can drive down the cost of their safety nets by about two thirds or $428 billion globally, in 2030. Combined interventions can also address environmental trade-offs that are bound to occur.
Conference papers on the topic "Food trade sustainability"
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BOBOC, Dan, Maria Claudia DIACONEASA, Valentin PĂUNA, and Marilena POTÂRNICHE. "THE IMAGE OF THE ROMANIAN TRADE BALANCE EVOLUTION BETWEEN 2009 AND 2019." In Competitiveness of Agro-Food and Environmental Economy. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/cafee/2020/9/09.
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The objectives of sustainable development in agriculture are emphasizing the worries related to the possibility of ensuring food security at national levels caused by the climate change and agricultural productivity. These worries reflect directly on the international trading partnerships and affect the trading especially with agricultural and food supplies. The current research aims at providing a clear image of the modifications in the trade balance of Romania, recognised mostly as an exporter of raw agricultural products, such as cereals or live animals, at low prices. Romanian agricultural productivity is characterized by an acute weather dependency, due to the low levels of irrigation systems and extensive agricultural systems, combined with extreme heat during summers and low precipitation in winters and springs. Even so, the exports and imports of a country are a key factor in its economic development so they cannot be reduced only to food security and sustainability aspects. In this context, a clear image of Romania’s trade balance offers some insight for the designing of future policy related both to the possibilities of economic and sustainable development.
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Twomey, Kelly M., and Michael E. Webber. "Evaluating the Cost of Food in a Carbon Constrained Economy." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90185.
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Although consensus has not been reached regarding the most efficient mechanism to curb anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, rising concern over the consequences of global climate change and consequent shifts in public and political sentiment suggest that carbon legislation will be instituted in the US in the near future. The recent climate change bill passed in the House of Representatives titled The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454) includes provisions for a cap-and-trade system intended to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions 83% by 2050. Consequently, it is likely that some means of carbon pricing will take effect that will make it more expensive to emit greenhouse gases. In a carbon constrained economy, it will become increasingly important to consider every stage of food production and consumption in order to evaluate the potential opportunities for emission reductions. This analysis uses Life-Cycle Assessment to estimate the social cost of food production by quantifying the associated negative externalities under a range of potential carbon prices, using meat and grain as examples. It concludes that 0.42 and 16.0 kg of lifecycle CO2e are embedded in 1 kg of grain and beef production, respectively. Consequently, the marginal cost associated with the emissions caused by grain production under a carbon price range of $10 and $85 per t CO2e is estimated to be between $.004 and $0.036 per kg of grain. By comparison, the estimated marginal cost associated with beef production over the same range of carbon pricing is $0.16 and $1.36 per kg of beef. Considering that the US produces 12 billion kg of beef per year, this range indicates that the carbon cost of beef production alone might fall anywhere between $1.9 and $16.3 billion per year, depending on whether and how a carbon price is applied. This uncertainty and potential carbon price could significantly impact the cost of carbon-intensive foods.
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Gül Yavuz, Gonca, Bülent Miran, and Tijen Özüdoğru. "Cereals Producers’ Agricultural Aims and Their Tendencies to Sustain Agricultural Production in Turkey." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c06.01341.
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The change in income level and urbanization bring a different dimension to the demand to agricultural products from the food habits to supply food, increase the attention to the cereals production and enhance the agricultural effect of cereals which are the main food source of people and are used as feed and in industry. Cereals have the biggest share in agricultural production in terms of both production volume and sowing area in Turkey which produces a lot of agricultural products thanks to the climate and soil characteristics. In this study, in Turkey which is globally an important actor in cereals production and trade, the aims of producers in agricultural production and the factors in the process of making decision toward sustaining production are studied by the best-worst analysis method. Also, the relationship between the sustainability of the agriculture and cereals production, and the individual characteristics and farm structures of producers are examined by bivariate probit analysis method. In this context, study is conducted by 961 producers with face-to-face surveys in 14 provinces. According to the results, while “to increase living standards” is the most important agricultural aim, “good crop price” is the most important factor for sustainability of the agriculture. Moreover, education, agricultural experiences, household size, cereals area and total farm land are determined as the effective factors on sustainability.
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Kaufmane, Dace, Liga Paula, Kaspars Naglis-Liepa, Liga Proskina, and Laura Andriana Indriksone. "Municipal activities in local food systems: case study of Zemgale region." In 22nd International Scientific Conference. “Economic Science for Rural Development 2021”. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2021.55.030.
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According to the Actor Network Theory, the local food system is a set of interconnected processes and social agents including municipalities as a business environment. In the context of rural studies, support for local food producers is important for local communities. By content analysis of the information available on the websites of Zemgale region’s municipalities and the opinions of municipal specialists on local support measures for entrepreneurs, the aim of the paper was to identify the activities of municipalities in local food systems. Within a context of local food systems, the authors revealed that municipalities in Zemgale region provide support activities in two main directions: food businesses and tourism activities. The analysis of business support measures showed that local food producers in municipalities are promoted and supported in a number of ways through branding, special events and trade facilitation, seminars and annual awards. Activities in the field of tourism revealed cooperation, involving local food producers in the tourism system and ensuring the recognition of local food products to a wider group of consumers. Integrating local food businesses into tourism routes and thematic activities, in other words making locally produced food an integral part of the tourism product, develops small and medium-sized enterprises that contribute to the socio-economic resilience and environmental sustainability of rural communities, local innovations and creativity. In Zemgale, municipal activities for support of local food producers in the context of COVID-19 crisis are strengthening rural communities thus supporting and helping entrepreneurs to adapt to changes.
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Berke-Berga, Anzelika, Inna Dovladbekova, and Marta Urbane. "Entrepreneurship in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, Opportunities and Governmet Assistance in Latvia." In 22nd International Scientific Conference. “Economic Science for Rural Development 2021”. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2021.55.044.
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The aim of this article is to analyse the government assistance provided to entrepreneurs in Latvia and its efficiency and appropriateness to the economic conditions encountered by entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis. An insight into international experience creates the framework of this study. The empirical analysis is based on secondary data analysis and entrepreneur’s survey data on business response to COVID-19 related pandemics restrictions and government assistance in Latvia. The observed business areas are financial and risk management, international trade, communication, employment, innovations, strategic change and legal issues. The paper finds that the crisis affected the most such industries as accommodation and food services; arts, entertainment and recreation. The result provides support to justification for a national long-term crisis management strategy for business sustainability.
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Curtiss, Peter S., and Jan F. Kreider. "Evaluation of Cradle to Grave Impacts From Potential Automotive Fuel Replacements: An Update." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90326.
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In modern society, everything from transportation to commerce to food supply is heavily dependent on the availability of cheap and plentiful energy supplies. In the past few years many have realized that the traditional sources of energy — oil and gas — are in limited supply and that we need to prepare for the approaching production maxima. Recent research has focused on alternative forms of transportation energy including biofuels, unconventional refining techniques, and heavy oil and bitumen. This report is a continuation of earlier research and now considers ethanol produced from municipal solid waste, ethanol from algae, and compressed natural gas. The data presented are maintained in the same format as previous studies to facilitate comparison between the fuels. Results are reported for land use, water use, input-to-output energy ratio, and carbon emissions for each fuel cycle and source. Data are given for the cases of 10, 25, and 50 percent displacements of the 2012 predicted transportation energy needs (i.e., the equivalent of 430 million gallons of gasoline per day). Cradle-to-grave findings indicate that some novel fuels cannot substitute for conventional fuels without consuming more water or land and emitting more greenhouse gases than fuels in use today. The life cycle analysis approach presented here is that which should be used as the US moves toward low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) and carbon cap and trade (CC&T) approaches for reducing carbon loading of the environment.
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Jayanty, Sri Satya Kanaka Nagendra, William J. Sawaya, and Michael D. Johnson. "Sustainable Distribution Design: Contrasting Disposable, Recyclable, and Reusable Strategies for Packaging Materials Using a Total Cost Analysis With an Illustration of Milk Distribution." In ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2010-28823.
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Engineers, policy makers, and managers have shown increasing interest in increasing the sustainability of products over their complete lifecycles and also from the ‘cradle to grave’ or from production to the disposal of each specific product. However, a significant amount of material is disposed of in landfills rather than being reused in some form. A sizeable proportion of the products being dumped in landfills consist of packaging materials for consumable products. Technological advances in plastics, packaging, cleaning, logistics, and new environmental awareness and understanding may have altered the cost structures surrounding the lifecycle use and disposal costs of many materials and products resulting in different cost-benefit trade-offs. An explicit and well-informed economic analysis of reusing certain containers might change current practices and results in significantly less waste disposal in landfills and in less consumption of resources for manufacturing packaging materials. This work presents a method for calculating the costs associated with a complete process of implementing a system to reuse plastic containers for food products. Specifically, the different relative costs of using a container and then either disposing of it in a landfill, recycling the material, or reconditioning the container for reuse and then reusing it are compared explicitly. Specific numbers and values are calculated for the case of plastic milk bottles to demonstrate the complicated interactions and the feasibility of such a strategy.
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Cioffi, Elena, and Barbara Pizzicato. "Design and tools for the transformation and valorisation of agro-industrial waste for Made in Italy industries." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002019.
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Responding to a sustainable production is an imperative that is gaining more and more relevance in the definition of specific programs and strategies at national and international level. This urgency leads towards zero waste and circular models and processes that minimize the extraction of resources from the biosphere and do not create waste; instead, when the waste of natural or anthropogenic transformations cannot be avoided, their valorization as resources must be carried out. The development of integrated supply chains, knowledge transfer between different disciplines and the dialogue between research and industry becomes fundamental for the achievement of these objectives. Existing studies in the literature regarding the agri-food production chain in Italy show that the sector, whose environmental impacts are by no means marginal, is fragmented in many small production companies; an interesting and critical aspect at the same time since the generation of waste is not accompanied by an appropriate dissemination of data at a quantitative-qualitative level and there is no clear regulatory framework available on alternative management and valorisation methods. Design, given its natural inclination to transversality, allows to trace scenarios in which to configure, through interdisciplinary approaches, the sustainability models that are intended to be covered in this contribution. Moreover, its methods and tools allow to develop a critical thinking starting from the very early designing phase. The paper addresses the valorisation of agro-industrial waste in a circular and systemic perspective through the presentation of a review of case studies from the textile supply chain, which is one of the most relevant for Italian industry.Due to its disastrous environmental impact, the global textile industry is today the subject of extensive research aimed at the development of innovative materials and processes in order to overcome the traditional linearity of the textile supply chain. The negative impacts of the textile industry are distributed along the entire value chain and are mainly attributable to greenhouse gas emissions -for which the textile industry represents the fifth manufacturing sector- consumption and pollution of water resources and the production of textile waste. In particular, the production of synthetic fibers, which is estimated to be almost two thirds of the global fiber production, is associated with a high use of non-renewable resources and emissions, which derives from the extraction of fossil fuels. In this sense, the valorisation of agro-industrial waste as secondary raw materials and new sustainable inputs for the textile supply chain, represents an opportunity not yet fully explored, in particular as regards the development of a new generation of fibers, yarns and eco-compatible fabrics alternative to the materials currently in use. Bio-based wastes and by-products from agri-food industry could as well present enormous potential for valorisation in the textile finish due to their intrinsic properties (antimicrobial, prebiotic, antioxidant activity, among others). At present, nevertheless, textiles from agro-residues do not completely meet the requirements to make them an attractive replacement for conventional fibre sources. Future research should therefore focus on identifying new agro-residue based blends that offer both performance and sustainability, adopting a systemic design approach based on interdisciplinary and interconnections as a strategy for innovation.
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Thudichum Vasconcelos, Ana, and Joao Cruz. "Design Strategies for Socio-Environmentally Adverse Territories." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001392.
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In an inland southern region of Portugal, pathologies that intersect social and environmental problems have been identified, such as low density, aged and dispersed population, as well as low rainfall and high temperatures. An applied research and development initiative endorsing those problems was carried out by students and staff of the University of Lisbon along two years. This text reflects on this experience and the role of design on such predicaments.The research questions are: how and what kind of innovation can design bring to the community's quality of life in territories under adverse conditions of that kind?A previous analysis, carried out between local authorities and our design school, allowed us to trace two lines of investigation, one aimed at intensifying the flow of people within the territory, and the other focused on promoting the relationship between Man and his environment.Considering that design can contribute to the process of social change, through design for social innovation and collaborative services, we reflect on the main characteristics that the design projects must contemplate, which are: a user-centered perspective; be a participatory process; to draft with a sustainability perspective; adopt a multilevel perspective; to endorse innovation and; sustain problem solving.The research methodology involves the transversal use of design methods and participatory processes, immersion in the territory, collection of primary and secondary data, definition of the concept, development of proposals, communication and validation by the municipal authorities.The results are a set of projects with a wide range of solutions in the field of social innovation, with the aim of valuing social interaction, valuing culture and regenerating the local landscape, namely: a cultural caravan service; a Lab-desk service; a cultural project to reactivate community wood-fired bread ovens; a website to publicize local projects focused on agroecological food; a Center for the Intangible Cultural Heritage; a co-working and co-living service; an environmental festival; a research service aimed at better understanding the needs of the “silent population”; a garden at the historic urban center of Mértola town; a public botanical garden; and, the renovation of a public area in a small village.The relevance of this work lies in the assertion of the potential of design strategies for social inovation, particularly in a context of social and environmental adversity, where design can fullfill a key role valuing the daily lives of populations. This article demonstrates that there is an immense space for work involving the public institutions managing this type of territories and the design academia. From our experience, a transversal line stands out: the intersection between local knowledge and the external population. This converges it the idea that the value that design brings to this kind of community is the drafting of arenas of social interaction where the local social fabric is nurtured and, simultaneously, beholding people´s awareness of the surrounding environment’s frailty.
Reports on the topic "Food trade sustainability"
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Glauber, Joseph W. Trade and climate change: The role of reforms in ensuring food security and sustainability. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896294257_03.
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Reynolds, Christian, Susan Moore, Philipa Denton, Ross Jones, Cicely Abdy Collins, Charlotte Droulers, Libby Oakden, et al. A rapid evidence assessment of UK citizen and industry understandings of sustainability. Food Standards Agency, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46756/sci.fsa.ihr753.
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The main research question addressed is: What does sustainability mean to UK citizens when it comes to food and diet? The report addresses the following secondary questions: How does the UK academic literature define sustainability, ‘sustainable food’ and ‘sustainable diet’? How do citizens’ perceptions compare to the academic definition? What does sustainability mean to industry when it comes to food and diet? A number of sub-questions and themes were explored to answer the main research question, such as understanding and importance of sustainability and its impact on food choices, trade-offs, drivers and barriers to sustainable food choices and differences across demographic groups