Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains

Maluf, Renato S.; Burlandy, Luciene; Cintrão, Rosângela Pezza; Jomalinis, Emília; Santarelli, Mariana; Tribaldos, Theresa

doi:10.1080/03066150.2022.2105700

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“…Brazil is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of soybeans and meat, mainly to China and Europe; this production involves a predominantly unsustainable and unjust model that must be considered together with carbon emissions when considering justice. Previous work on soy and livestock value chains has attempted to broaden the original climate change focus of the just transition concept to include manifestations of inequities and distributive, recognitive and procedural injustices (Maluf et al, 2022). Similar attempts were made for other sectors (Bastos Lima, 2022) and are taken up in this article as components of narrative disputes in Brazil.…”

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“…The impacts of food systems on climate change have been associated with different types of inequalities and injustices; the soy-meat complex is one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases, leading to greater considerations of justice and equity-related questions in food system sustainability transition studies (El Bilali, 2019;Hebinck et al, 2021;Kaljonen et al, 2021;Tribaldos and Kortetmäki, 2022). The expansion of this complex reinforces previous injustices and creates obstacles to just transitions toward sustainable and healthy food systems while mitigating climate change (Maluf et al, 2022). Private initiatives to mitigate climate change, such as the moratorium on growing soybeans in the Amazon and sustainability certifications, have been criticized by civil society organizations (Schilling-Vacaflor et al, 2021) and considered partial or even "false responses" that are ineffective at curbing deforestation of native forests and incapable of dealing with the main determinants of food and environmental injustice.…”

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Sustainability, justice and equity in food systems: Ideas and proposals in dispute in Brazil

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Just Transition or Just Transitioning? Potentials and Limitations of Urban Growers’ Adaptations to the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic short-term shocks to global and local food supply chains. Research thus far has examined increased consumer demands, yet there is a lack of research on the impacts, adaptations, and perceptions of local growers and farmers. In this paper, we analyze 59 interviews conducted with urban growers across the DC metropolitan region to understand how local urban and suburban growers responded and adapted during 2020–2021. We use the “just transition” framework, which currently lacks empirical applications to the food system, to explore how transformations in a regional food system could further social sustainability and equity in the larger food system. We find that the growers faced a multitude of challenges in diversifying and scaling up their distribution system, as they implemented changes mostly independently without much institutional support or coordination. Growing commercially, for donation, or personal consumption resulted in different sets of challenges and adaptations. Our study demonstrates the need for more critical, empirically-driven assessments of the “just transition” theory, specifically its implementation mechanisms and processes, as the growers’ variant adaptation strategies underscore both the potential and limitations of ensuring the equitable transformation of a regional food system through grassroots efforts.

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Food Systems and Access to Healthy Food in an Amazonian Context

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The article aims to identify how systemic, multi-scale dynamics influence access to adequate and healthy food and eating and how food is produced and circulated in the Amazonian context of the Metropolitan Region of Santarém (PA). We conducted a literature review, qualitative interviews with key actors, discussion groups and visits to food retailers to address the following research questions: how do socio-economic and political dynamics, especially those related to the soy-meat agroindustrial complex, create or reproduce social inequalities, injustices and inequities, and how do they affect the access to adequate and healthy food? Our findings suggest that the expansion of large-scale soybean growing and livestock, forming the industrial soy-meat complex, contributes to the impoverishment of certain social segments of the local population, accompanied by the erosion of the base for food production. Smallholder farmers and Indigenous and traditional people are among the main affected groups, while violence in rural areas contributes to restricting access to adequate and healthy food. The novelties of our study lie in approaching food systems, taking access to food as the entry point and linking adverse effects of the soy-meat complex to inequalities in access to healthy food. The study also discusses value conflicts between “traditional” and “modern food” (e.g., ultra-processed food), reflecting intergenerational disputes between ways of life and culture, which are also nurtured by the expansion of the soy-meat complex. These multi-scale dynamics have significant repercussions on how food is produced and circulated and highlight the relations between local food politics and conflicts, as well as their connections with processes beyond the local scale. Finally, the article calls for advancing integrated and multi-scale analysis of food production and access to address challenges of social injustices in food system transitions, fostering sustainability, human health and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Sustainability, justice and equity in food systems: Ideas and proposals in dispute in Brazil

Sustainability, justice and equity in food systems: Ideas and proposals in dispute in Brazil

Just Transition or Just Transitioning? Potentials and Limitations of Urban Growers’ Adaptations to the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Food Systems and Access to Healthy Food in an Amazonian Context

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