What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural
resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with …

Private and public governance instruments seeking to ensure sustainability in agro-food
value chains have become ubiquitous in the past three decades. Virtually all major retailers …

South Africa has been a pioneer in developing a variety of sustainability programmes and
initiatives from farm to bottle, placing it at the forefront of sustainability in the global wine …

This article explores how a farming community in Wellington (Bovlei) moved from
dependence towards an empowered community through non-profit organisations'(NPOs) …

The global Fairtrade system is multiple, heterogeneous and dynamic. The processes that
underlie its contextual formations are key, and this paper analyses these through bringing …

Globally, Fairtrade practices its ethic of trade justice and governs its multiple stakeholders
through a universalising set of regulations. However, this essentialises what are, in reality …

This thesis presents a study of women's empowerment in Nepal, a low-income country in
South Asia with significant gender inequities across multiple dimensions. The thesis took …

Understanding justice for many academics, practitioners and policy makers begins with
questions of injustice–the way particular social, economic, political or cultural structures …

Fairtrade operates its global system through a homogenising but marketable set of
standards. Combined with issues around how to include producers in governance, this has …

Fairtrade is a global system that aims to challenge trade injustice through establishing
transparent, democratic and sustainable commodity networks. However, being so …