ReviewNature food2021
Sustainability standards in global agrifood supply chains.
Review in Nature food, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Comparing corporate sustainability programmes, social entrepreneurship, and cooperatives in shaping farmers' well-being.Communications sustainability · 2026Article
- Green production of apples delivers environmental and economic benefits in China.Plant communications · 2024Article
- Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains.Nature food · 2024Review
- Multi-Elemental Analysis and Geographical Discrimination of Greek "Gigantes Elefantes" Beans Utilizing Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning Models.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Measuring Social Sustainability in the Italian Agri-Food Sector: Proposed Key Performance Indicators.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Digital innovations for monitoring sustainability in food systems.Nature food · 2024Review
- The role of household labour for sustainable intensification in smallholder systems: a case study in cocoa farming systems.Regional environmental change · 2024Article
- Towards a Standardized Approach for the Geographical Traceability of Plant Foods Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA).Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Contemporary narratives about asymmetries in responsibility in global agri-food value chains: the case of the Ecuadorian stakeholders in the banana value chain.Agriculture and human values · 2022Article
- Addressing indirect sourcing in zero deforestation commodity supply chains.Science advances · 2022Article
- Preferences in 'Jalapeño' Pepper Attributes: A Choice Study in Mexico.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
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.
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