A Commodity Supply Mix for More Regionalized Life Cycle Assessments

Lathuillière, Michael J.; Patouillard, Laure; Margni, Manuele; Ayre, Ben; Löfgren, Pernilla; Ribeiro, Vivian; West, Chris; Gardner, Toby; Suavet, Clément

doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c03060

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“…Data on women's employment in food manufacturing and services is incomplete. Moreover, sex-disaggregated data is especially scarce within selected subsectors, such as aquaculture and fishing value chains and agricultural inputs (Kruijssen, McDougall and van Asseldonk, 2018 [96]) (Puskur et al, 2021[97]) (WorldFish, 2020 [98]) (Polar et al, 2021[99])).…”

Section: Women As Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Overcoming evidence gaps on food systems

2023

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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Food assistance programmes in OECD countries are described in the OECD report Food insecurity and food assistance programmes across OECD countries: Overcoming evidence gaps (Giner and Placzek, 2022[44])This report was approved and declassified by the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets in March 2023 and was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat. This report, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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Section: Women As Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Overcoming evidence gaps on food systems

2023

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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“…Recently, advances in scientific understanding, computing, visualization, and data availability have allowed several improvements. First, the ability to widen the sustainability concerns that can be considered such as carbon emissions [42], biodiversity [43][44][45], water scarcity [46,47], and soil erosion [48]; second, enhanced accounting of spatial heterogeneity in environmental characteristics at the sub-national level (districts, provinces; e.g., [49][50][51]); third, regular updates linked to environmental changes in production landscapes through the integration of nearreal-time Earth observation data to monitor progress [52]. Importantly, this information is World 2023, 4 572 now accessible to end users, through publicly available platforms such as Global Forest Watch [53], Water Risk Filter [54], or the Trase platform (Trase.earth).…”

Section: Demand-led Action For Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Demand-Side Actors in Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability: An Assessment of Motivations for Action, Implementation Challenges, and Research Frontiers

Mueller,

West,

Bastos Lima

et al. 2023

World

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Agricultural supply chains of forest-risk commodities such as soy, palm oil, and cocoa have risen to the top of the global sustainability agenda. Demand-side actors, including consumer-goods companies, retailers, and civil society organizations have coalesced around a growing number of sustainable supply chain policies. However, despite rapid advances in tools and methods to convert data into useful information about impacts and policy effectiveness, and their implementation for decision-making is lagging. There is an urgent need to examine such demand-led action and understand how to accelerate progress towards agricultural supply chain sustainability. Here, we explore how demand-side actors within globalized supply chains see limitations in knowledge and barriers to progress in the context of forest-risk commodities. We draw from 20 semi-structured interviews and two focus group discussions with manufacturers, retailers, NGOs, and data providers. Our findings show that civil society pressure in consumer regions is perceived as a key driver guiding action, that certification is commonly sought to reduce detrimental impacts, but that collaboration to tackle systemic issues remains a gap. Companies also highlight the need for simple, timely, and meaningful metrics to assess impacts—practical usability concerns that need to be considered in the search for ever-greater accuracy in capturing complex phenomena.

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“…In comparison, there are several methods to trace and verify gross (i.e. rather than just legal) zerodeforestation and natural habitat conversion in export supply chains [21][22][23] . Platforms such as Trase 8 and…”

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confidence: 99%

Trading deforestation - Why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient

Reis

Faria

Lopes

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Consumer countries and blocs, including the UK and the EU, are defining legal measures to tackle deforestation linked to commodity imports, potentially requiring imported goods to comply with the relevant producer countries’ land-use laws. Nonetheless, this measure is insufficient to address global deforestation. Using Brazil’s example of a key exporter of forest-risk commodities, here we show that it has ~3.25 Mha of natural habitat (~152.8 million tons of CO2) at a high risk of legal deforestation until 2025. Additionally, the country’s legal framework is going through modifications to legalize agricultural production in illegally deforested areas. What was illegal may become legal shortly. Hence, a legality criterion adopted by consumer countries is insufficient to protect forests and other ecosystems and may worsen deforestation and conversion risks by incentivizing the weakening of social-environmental protection by producer countries.

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A Commodity Supply Mix for More Regionalized Life Cycle Assessments

Cited by 6 publications

References 58 publications

Overcoming evidence gaps on food systems

Overcoming evidence gaps on food systems

Demand-Side Actors in Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability: An Assessment of Motivations for Action, Implementation Challenges, and Research Frontiers

Trading deforestation - Why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient

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