Southern-Led Sustainability Standards in Global Food Supply Chains: A Just Alternative?

Open online seminar with Juliane Lang, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

Companies in global food and natural resource industries often seek to address environmental problems through the use of sustainability standards in their global supply chains.

Standards represent a cost-efficient way of managing sustainability in supply chains, and their results are relatively easily quantifiable in terms of uptake, biomass and land area covered.

Yet, in many industries, sustainability standards also face serious challenges in contributing to actual, on the ground improvements for farmers and the environment.

This talk will give insight into the state of knowledge on the nature of these challenges, and explore the potential for locally specific, Southern-led sustainability standards to mitigate them. It will illustrate this through recently published research on the wine and farmed salmon value chains in Chile, which is based on five months of fieldwork carried out in 2022.

How to participate

The seminar is open to all.
The seminar will take place online via Zoom