Schaafsma, Marije;
Dreoni, Ilda;
Ayompe, Lacour Mody;
Egoh, Benis N;
Ekayana, Dewa Putu;
Favareto, Arilson;
Mumbunan, Sonny;
... Matthews, Zoe; + view all
(2023)
Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals.
Sustainable Development
, 31
(4)
pp. 2363-2385.
10.1002/sd.2515.
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Abstract
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievement, recognise the need to address potential negative social and environmental impacts. It is therefore important to assess the contribution of international trade to the SDGs in commodity production areas. The environmental impacts of commodity production are widely acknowledged, but much less is known about its social impacts, and how this affects poverty reduction objectives across different dimensions. Impacts on human wellbeing and equity depend on a multitude of factors, including resources, systemic conditions and outputs of production. Through a broad literature review on soy, coffee, cocoa and palm oil, we show how studies have addressed different aspects of these factors and their impacts. The paper demonstrates how efforts by actors in global supply chains are related to a large number of SDGs and their targets. We link the social impacts and factors to the SDGs and a list of potential indicators and variables to guide operationalisation of assessments in new empirical studies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/sd.2515 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.2515 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | commodity production, global value chains, indicators, multidimensional wellbeing, sustainable development goals |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195161 |
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