Modern slavery footprints in global supply chains

Shilling, Hannah-Jayne; Wiedmann, Thomas; Malik, Arunima

doi:10.1111/jiec.13169

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“…Food trade is essential to any post-growth sustainable agrifood system. Yet, within the current global economic regime, trade has become a primary source of environmental and social risks 65,66 . Of paramount importance is ending the current state of unequal exchange (estimated to exceed a US$10 trillion drain from the global South to the global North) followed by ecological reparations for past harm 21 .…”

Section: Post-growth Agrifood Systems In Actionmentioning

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Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

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Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehensive agrifood system redesign according to principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons and care. This redesign should be supported by coordinated education and research efforts that do not simply replicate dominant discourses on food system sustainability but point towards a post-growth world in which agroecological life processes support healthy communities rather than serving as inputs for the relentless pursuit of economic growth.

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Section: Post-growth Agrifood Systems In Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

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“…Worldwide, around 29% of people in modern slavery (5.4 million) and some 70% of all child labourers (about 100 million) work in agriculture, mostly in lower-income countries 3,4 . Around 51% of the global forest lost between 2001 and 2015 went to agriculture, mainly for cropland and pastures 5,6 .…”

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Six research priorities to support corporate due-diligence policies

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Börner

Brugger

et al. 2022

Nature

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Achocolate bar bought in the United States might have been made in Belgium with cocoa from Côte d'Ivoire, almonds from Morocco, vanilla from Madagascar and sugar from Brazil. It is hard to know, however, whether these ingredients were grown on deforested land or harvested using forced or child labour. It's the same story for smartphones, clothes and cosmetics. Sourcing and manufacturing their components might have contaminated rivers, exposed workers to toxins or caused biodiversity loss.That's why, in February, the European Commission proposed a directive on corporate due diligence for sustainability. It sets out how companies operating in the European Union with more than 250 employees would be required to identify, prevent, mitigate and stop any negative impacts on the environment and on human rights embedded in their supply chains. Otherwise, they would face sanctions, fines and lawsuits.Other countries and organizations are discussing similar proposals, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. To be effective, such efforts must be consistent and well-reasoned. Policy frameworks are needed to extend and harmonize due diligence, and research is needed to support it.Such measures are necessary because existing policies are too limited in scope. For example, California's Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 and the 2018 Australian Modern Laws to stamp out deforestation, pollution and child labour in global supply chains might have unintended consequences. Researchers need to investigate these effects.

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“…Even in member states of the EU, where nationals prefer not to work on farms (Morén-Alegret and Wladyka, 2020), workers from impoverished parts of Asia and Africa work in conditions that the International Labor Organization would deem unacceptable (Caruana et al , 2021; Crane, 2013; Crane et al , 2021) to produce healthy foods, such as the berries that enrich our diets (Wallis, 2021). Modern slavery is an overlooked aspect of supply chain management (Gold et al , 2015; Monciardini et al , 2021; New, 2015, 2020; Shilling et al , 2021).…”

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The paradox of the peasantry in management and organization studies

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Clegg

Rego

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IJOA

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Purpose Burrell (2020) challenged management and organization studies (MOS) scholars to pay attention to a topic they have mostly ignored: the peasantry, those 2 billion people that work in the rural primary sector. This paper aims to address the topic to expand Burrell’s challenge by indicating that the peasantry offers a unique context to study a paradoxical condition: the coexistence of persistent poverty and vanguardist innovation. Design/methodology/approach The authors advance conceptual arguments that complement the reasons why researchers should pay more attention to the peasantry. They argue that continuation of past research into field laborers, transitioning from feudalism to industrial capitalism, still has currency, not just because of the good reasons listed by Burrell (enduring relevance of the phenomenon in developing countries; sustainability concerns; acknowledgment of common heritage) but also because some seemingly archaic practices are evident in the economically developed countries where most management and organizations scholars live. Findings The authors show that in advanced economies, the peasantry has not disappeared, and it is manifested in contradictory forms, as positive force contributing to sustainable productivity (in the case of digitized agriculture) and as a negative legacy of social inequality and exploitation (as a form of modern slavery). Originality/value The authors discuss contrasting themes confronting management of the peasantry, namely, modern slavery and digital farming, and propose that a paradox view may help overcome unnecessary dualisms, which may promote social exclusion rather than integrated development.

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Modern slavery footprints in global supply chains

Cited by 18 publications

References 31 publications

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Six research priorities to support corporate due-diligence policies

The paradox of the peasantry in management and organization studies

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