Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda

J Grabs, SL Carodenuto - Business Strategy and the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Corporate actors are rapidly gaining ground as nontraditional forms of authority that shape
sustainability governance efforts in global food supply chains. This paper highlights the …

The Amazon in motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes, and livelihoods

S Hecht, M Schmink, R Abers… - … Report 2021, Part …, 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
This chapter reviews the often-invisible, powerful processes that drive social and ecological
change in the Amazon, and the diverse peoples who inhabit its landscapes. It explores the …

Technology for social good foundations: A perspective from the smallholder farmer in sustainable supply chains

M Quayson, C Bai, J Sarkis - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The livelihood of smallholder farmers in emerging economies' cocoa supply chain is
substandard because of fraud, exploitation, corruption, deceit, child labor, and financial …

Price-setting power in global value chains: The cases of price stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

C Staritz, B Tröster, J Grumiller… - The European journal of …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper calls for integrating price-setting power and related uneven exposure to price
risks into the analysis of governance in global value chains (GVCs) as it adds to other power …

What owns the land: The corporate organization of farmland investment

L Ashwood, J Canfield, M Fairbairn… - The Journal of Peasant …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Novel investment vehicles continue to dominate discussions of the financial entities driving
the global land rush. However, less attention has been devoted to the mundane elements of …

Missing the target: Brazil's agricultural policy indirectly subsidizes foreign investments to the detriment of smallholder farmers and local agribusiness

G Corcioli, GS Medina, CA Arrais - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Currently there is controversy about the effect of direct foreign investment in the Brazilian
agricultural sector, mainly due to the impact it has on small farmers, land use, the …

[HTML][HTML] Technology-driven transformations in agri-food global value chains: The role of incumbent firms from a corporate venture capital perspective

P Mac Clay, R Feeney, J Sellare - Food Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Agri-food global value chains (GVCs) are failing to provide healthy and affordable diets
within planetary boundaries. Many cutting-edge technologies are being developed to …

Commodity traders in a storm: financialization, corporate power and ecological crisis

J Baines, SB Hager - Review of International Political Economy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Commodity trading firms occupy a central position in global supply chains and their activities
have been associated with financial instability, social upheaval and manifold forms of …

Smallholder bargaining power in large-scale land deals: a relational perspective

R Rutten, L Bakker, ML Alano, T Salerno… - De-centring Land …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
What capacity do smallholders have to influence key decisions in large-scale land deals to
their own advantage, in particular in their own localities? Though the cards are stacked …

Land rush

SM Borras Jr, JC Franco - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Studies and debates on the issue of land grabs have generated multiple terms and concepts
that are used loosely and interchangeably, such as large-scale land acquisitions, land grab …