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Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024

16–18 Sept 2024
Paulinerkirche
Europe/Berlin timezone

Session

Sustainability Standards

18 Sept 2024, 10:30
1.207 (Paulinerkirche)

1.207

Paulinerkirche

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  1. 59. Sustainable Food System Transformation in the Netherlands: a multi-level perspective
    Hens Runhaar (Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development)
    18/09/2024, 10:30
    Oral

    Key words: transition, transformation, governance, barriers

    Objective
    Western food systems are highly productive but also face substantial sustainability challenges, including ongoing biodiversity loss, climate change, and diet-related diseases (El Bilali et al., 2021; Fanzo et al., 2021). These sustainability challenges find their origin in a series of connectivity problems, such as...

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  2. 61. Strengthening Rwandan Coffee Agriculture: The Effect of Information Sources on Development Resilience
    Bruno Paz (University of Göttingen)
    18/09/2024, 10:50
    Oral

    Introduction
    Rural development remains crucial to enhancing welfare and eradicating poverty, yet, numerous obstacles, such as climate change and market failures, hinder the achievement of these goals globally, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Shimeles et al. 2018). Hence, strategies that enable farmers to strengthen their resilience, including those related to disseminating...

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  3. 114. Price stability or volatility? The role of certification in Peruvian’s food commodity markets
    Eva Boonaert (KU Leuven)
    18/09/2024, 11:10
    Oral

    Keywords: Voluntary sustainability standards, Private standards, Fairtrade, Organic, GlobalGAP

    Introduction

    The agri-food system faces numerous sustainability challenges, necessitating urgent transformation (Diaz-Bonilla et al., 2023). Amidst increasing price uncertainty, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and geopolitical instability, addressing these issues becomes...

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  4. 107. Voluntary sustainability standards and their welfare effects: The importance of operationalization in the Indonesian cocoa sector
    Janne Bemelmans (Division of Bioeconomics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven (KUL))
    18/09/2024, 11:30
    Oral

    KEYWORDS: Voluntary Sustainability Standards; Institutional context; Producer welfare; Cocoa; Indonesia

    Introduction

    Although voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) promise to deliver improved sustainability outcomes, recent review studies (1-3) reveal that socio-economic outcomes of VSS are ambiguous and that contextual factors are key in determining the sustainability impacts of...

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