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Conceptualizing sustainability and resilience in value chains in times of multiple crises—Notes on agri-food chains

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  • Follmann, Alexander
  • Dannenberg, Peter
  • Baur, Nina
  • Braun, Boris
  • Walther, Grit
  • Bernzen, Amelie
  • Börner, Jan
  • Brüntrup, Michael
  • Franz, Martin
  • Götz, Linde
  • Hornidge, Anna-Katharina
  • Hulke, Carolin
  • Jamali Jaghdani, Tinoush
  • Krishnan, Aarti
  • Kulke, Elmar
  • Labucay, Inéz
  • Mbaka Nduru, Gilbert
  • Neise, Thomas
  • Priyadarshini, Priya
  • Revilla Diez, Javier
  • Ruett, Johanna
  • Scheller, Christian
  • Spengler, Thomas
  • Sulle, Emmanuel

Abstract

Global and regional agri-food value chains feed societies and are an income source for hundreds of millions of farmers around the world. They are also target areas for action to achieve a global sustainability transformation. Agri-food chains are highly vulnerable in the context of multiple crises, including the global environmental crisis, geopolitical fragmentation, armed conflicts and wars, and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures to increase chain resilience are widely discussed; however, some such measures contradict sustainability measures. While there has been considerable research on the sustainability and resilience of agri-food chains, few studies have integrated both perspectives or outlined potential synergies and trade-offs. Therefore, this interdisciplinary literature review sketches possible contours for a synthesized research agenda on sustainability and resilience for agri-food chains during multiple crises. We argue that such an agenda should include, amongst others, • a more differentiated and critical perspective on the importance of value chain characteristics and developments (e.g., power structures, capabilities, up- and downgrading, and the borders of chain internalities and externalities) • a more comprehensive perspective that includes global and regional contexts and relations (e.g., whole-chain perspectives that integrate agro-input supply) • an actor-oriented approach that interrogates aspects of inequality, cost-sharing, and the potential benefits of sustainability and resilience for different actors along a value chain (i.e., sustainability and resilience for whom?)

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  • Follmann, Alexander & Dannenberg, Peter & Baur, Nina & Braun, Boris & Walther, Grit & Bernzen, Amelie & Börner, Jan & Brüntrup, Michael & Franz, Martin & Götz, Linde & Hornidge, Anna-Katharina & Hulke, 2024. "Conceptualizing sustainability and resilience in value chains in times of multiple crises—Notes on agri-food chains," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 155(1), pages 29-48.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:308689
    DOI: 10.12854/erde-2024-692
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