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1 Simons, L. 2015. Changing the food game: market transformation strategies for sustainable agriculture. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing. 248p.
Sustainable agriculture ; Food production ; Food industry ; Food shortages ; Market structure ; Economic aspects ; Agricultural sector ; Palm oils ; Coffee industry ; Cocoa industry ; Standards ; Institution building ; State intervention ; Non governmental organizations ; Farmers ; Population growth ; Land use ; Biodiversity ; Climate change ; Subsidies ; Poverty / aFRICA / Guatemala
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 SIM Record No: H047235)
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2 Krauss, J. E.; Krishnan, A. 2021. Global decisions versus local realities: sustainability standards, priorities and upgrading dynamics in agricultural global production networks. Global Networks, 24p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12325]
Agricultural production ; Agricultural value chains ; Sustainability ; Standards ; Horticulture ; Cocoa industry ; Stakeholders ; Farmers ; Livelihoods ; Policies ; Certification ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Environmental factors ; Case studies ; Models / Africa South of Sahara / Central America / Nicaragua / Kenya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050408)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.12325
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050408.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050408.pdf
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Voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) in global production networks (GPNs) have grown significantly in prominence. Existing research largely assumed that VSSs create linear upgrading outcomes for all GPN actors and has studied VSSs from the point of adoption in the GPNs, rather than a broader range of stages in their lifecycle. To address these limitations, and building on literature around power and agency in GPNs, we develop the constellation of priorities (CoP) model to unpack the diverse and often diverging boardroom (Northern lead firm) and local (Southern supplier) priorities involved in such standards. Through in-depth fieldwork on horticulture in Kenya and cocoa in Nicaragua across the VSS lifecycle, we find significant divergences in priorities between farmer groups in both countries and lead firms in the UK and Germany. We demonstrate analytically and empirically that diverging priorities coupled with power asymmetries produced contestations, leading to simultaneous economic and environmental downgrading, and social upgrading.
3 Sarpong, D. B.; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe; Minh, Thai; Cofie, Olufunke. 2022. Sustainable financing ecosystem for cocoa irrigation in Ghana: a literature review. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on West and Central African Food Systems Transformation. 64p.
Cocoa industry ; Irrigated farming ; Sustainability ; Financing ; Agricultural sector ; Forest ecosystems ; Ecosystem conservation ; Stakeholders ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Smallholders / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051654)
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Based on a systematic literature review using scientific database search engines and an opportunistic review of published and unpublished government, international and nongovernmental organization reports on cocoa from the internet, the paper explores sustainable irrigation financing feasibility and the potential for different cocoa systems. We design a conceptual framework and propose a sustainable financing ecosystem for supplemental irrigated cocoa farming in Ghana and a qualitative data collection tool based on the conceptual framework and insights from the literature review.
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