Value chains and soft commodities in Amazonia. Regulatory prospects for commodified biodiversity according to the glocal production chain of açaí

Veloz, Paula

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2019.1694663

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“…Complex problems like biodiversity are multilevel in nature and thus require a global and local (i.e., glocal) approach (Gupta et al, 2013). For example, product sourcing relies on the biodiversity characteristics of a region, thus necessitating business and institutional actors to negotiate both locally and globally, as they pursue products specific to the biodiversity resources of a region (Veloz, 2020). Furthermore, a local and global approach also encourages companies to move beyond sustainability metrics to preserve the prominence of local actors and promote the cultural and economic values of their traditional practices and institutions (Svensson et al, 2016; Veloz, 2020).…”

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“…For example, product sourcing relies on the biodiversity characteristics of a region, thus necessitating business and institutional actors to negotiate both locally and globally, as they pursue products specific to the biodiversity resources of a region (Veloz, 2020). Furthermore, a local and global approach also encourages companies to move beyond sustainability metrics to preserve the prominence of local actors and promote the cultural and economic values of their traditional practices and institutions (Svensson et al, 2016; Veloz, 2020). For example, the Danone Ecosystem Fund claims a local and global approach via experimentation with social impact projects with farmers across the world.…”

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Connecting businesses and biodiversity conservation through community organizing: The case of babassu breaker women in Brazil

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We investigate the role of community organizing in connecting business activities and biodiversity conservation. We draw from a unique setting in the Brazilian Amazônia Legal (Legal Amazon)-the traditional community of quebradeiras de coco do babaçu (babassu nut breaking women), or quebradeiras-to show how this community connects the subsistence activity of breaking babassu palm tree nuts with local and global value chains (GVCs) in the cosmetics industry. As a consequence of multidimensional community organizing and local/global business connections, we show not only the ways in which biodiversity conservation has been realized in a large area of the Amazon but also how the quebradeiras have developed organizational activities that address persistent social, economic, and environmental challenges. Through community organizing, the quebradeiras maintain a traditional activity, connect with GVCs, and protect the biodiversity of the regional ecosystem. We thus call attention to the impact of business on strengthening community organizing and fostering biodiversity conservation.

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“…The articulation of 'sustainable' rationalities pave the way for new forms of resource exploitation at the frontier with profound impacts on local populations and their access to land. A further group articles, therefore, stress that LULC research needs to be sensitive to the social relations surrounding these endeavours and to conduct critical analyses of the respective narratives, be they sustainability or development-oriented (Backhouse and Lehmann, 2019;Graciano et al, 2019;Veloz, 2020). Future visions of development and sustainability INTRODUCTION are easily instrumentalized and emptied of their original meaning by state policy and powerful private actors, thereby legitimizing unequal access to land and unsustainable LU.…”

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Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Vega-Leinert¹,

Schönenberg²

2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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Goals and scope of the special issueLand use is at the centre of political and ethical dispute all over the world. How these disputes are conducted depends, to a certain extent, on scientific policy advice. Knowledge related to land rights, food sovereignty, environmental governance, societal and cultural values, and social and human behaviour, among others, represent the frame conditions, well analysed data the content for a qualified debate. Accordingly, cross-fertilization between social and natural sciences and with local stakeholders is critical to produce the knowledge needed to spur transformation (Jahn et al., 2012). In this special issue we aim at:• encouraging transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge on land use in sustainability research • generating original theoretical and methodological insights on the rapid and profound societal and environmental processes currently taking place at Latin American frontiers, and beyond • contributing to an inventive research agenda for transformative research on land use at extractive and agrarian frontiers.Two assumptions guide our reflection:• True transdisciplinarity implies trusting that each source of knowledge involved has a significant role to play in generating the collective insights needed to construct sustainable futures.• We need innovative arenas, where scientific/lay, Western/non-Western, quantitative/qualitative approaches fruitfully interact, to produce hybrid, socially, politically and ecologically conscious research results.With our Special Issue we, therefore, want to foster integrative approaches from a broad spectrum of social science perspectives, ranging from critical geography, agrarian/gender/cultural studies, political sciences, sociology to anthropology and history. We wish to incorporate qualitative, empirical and exploratory methods, which address the societal root causes, processes and implications of land use change. Indeed, they are invaluable in performing actor-, network-, and policy analyses, and providing critical insights into the motivations, perceptions, preferences, and decision-making of societal actors in relation to nature, ecosystem services and land use/land cover (LULC) changes.

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Chagas disease in the context of the 2030 agenda: global warming and vectors

Souza

Gorla

Chame

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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz

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Value chains and soft commodities in Amazonia. Regulatory prospects for commodified biodiversity according to the glocal production chain of açaí

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

Connecting businesses and biodiversity conservation through community organizing: The case of babassu breaker women in Brazil

Connecting businesses and biodiversity conservation through community organizing: The case of babassu breaker women in Brazil

Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Chagas disease in the context of the 2030 agenda: global warming and vectors

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