Sustainability standards in global agrifood supply chains.
Journal
Nature food
ISSN: 2662-1355
Titre abrégé: Nat Food
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101761102
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
Historique:
received:
11
09
2020
accepted:
30
07
2021
medline:
1
10
2021
pubmed:
1
10
2021
entrez:
28
4
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Agrifood supply chains contribute to many environmental and social problems. Sustainability standards-rules that supply chain actors may follow to demonstrate their commitment to social equity and/or environmental protection-aim to mitigate such problems. We provide a narrative review of the effects of many distinct sustainability standards on different supply chain actors spanning multiple crops. Furthermore, we discuss five emerging questions-causality, exclusion, compliance and monitoring, excess supply and emerging country markets-and identify directions for future research. We find that, while sustainability standards can help improve the sustainability of production processes in certain situations, they are insufficient to ensure food system sustainability at scale, nor do they advance equity objectives in agrifood supply chains.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37117971
doi: 10.1038/s43016-021-00360-3
pii: 10.1038/s43016-021-00360-3
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Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
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IM
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758-765Subventions
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
ID : ME 5179/1-1
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© 2021. Springer Nature Limited.
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