Conceptualizing sustainability and resilience in value chains in times of multiple crises-notes on agri-food chains

Follmann, Alexander, Dannenberg, Peter, Baur, Nina, Braun, Boris, Walther, Grit, Bernzen, Amelie, Boerner, Jan, Bruentrup, Michael, Franz, Martin, Goetz, Linde, Hornidge, Anna-Katharina, Hulke, Carolin ORCID: 0000-0002-8365-9614, Jaghdani, Tinoush Jamali, Krishnan, Aarti, Kulke, Elmar, Labucay, Inez, Nduru, Gilbert Mbaka, Neise, Thomas, Priyadarshini, Priya, Diez, Javier Revilla, Ruett, Johanna, Scheller, Christian, Spengler, Thomas and Sulle, Emmanuel (2024) Conceptualizing sustainability and resilience in value chains in times of multiple crises-notes on agri-food chains. Die Erde, 155 (1). 29 - 48. ISSN 0013-9998

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Abstract

Global and regional agri-food value chains feed societies and are an income source for hundreds of millions of farmers around the world. They are also target areas for action to achieve a global sustainability transformation. Agri-food chains are highly vulnerable in the context of multiple crises, including the global environmental crisis, geopolitical fragmentation, armed conflicts and wars, and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures to increase chain resilience are widely discussed; however, some such measures contradict sustainability measures. While there has been considerable research on the sustainability and resilience of agri-food chains, few studies have integrated both perspectives or outlined potential synergies and trade-offs. Therefore, this interdisciplinary literature review sketches possible contours for a synthesized research agenda on sustainability and resilience for agri-food chains during multiple crises. We argue that such an agenda should include, amongst others, • a more differentiated and critical perspective on the importance of value chain characteristics and developments (e.g., power structures, capabilities, up- and downgrading, and the borders of chain internalities and externalities) • a more comprehensive perspective that includes global and regional contexts and relations (e.g., whole-chain perspectives that integrate agro-input supply) • an actor-oriented approach that interrogates aspects of inequality, cost-sharing, and the potential benefits of sustainability and resilience for different actors along a value chain (i.e., sustainability and resilience for whom?)

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2025 09:24
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2025 09:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126949

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