Traders as Implementors of Sustainability in Tropical Agriculture Supply Chains
| dc.contributor.author | Silverman, Sofia | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Carodenuto, Sophia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-11T19:46:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-11T19:46:22Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2023 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09-11 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Geography | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science M.Sc. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Tropical agriculture commodities such as cocoa, coffee, and palm oil are popular ingredients across the globe. Despite their abundance, these crops have geographically few growing regions and are often concentrated in countries in the Global South. In order for products to transform from their raw form to their final consumable form, the commodities undergo significant travel and transformation across supply chains. Along these supply chains, known environmental and socioeconomic challenges are embedded at all stages. Stakeholders along the supply chain have long tried to remedy barriers and seek sustainable practices with little scalable success. But recent studies have realized there needs to be increased research dedicated towards a relatively opaque actor, traders. Traders are actors at the center of supply chains and mainly facilitate the movement of crops from upstream producers to downstream consuming markets, but they also serve as communicators along supply chains. This central position provides traders significant insight vertically across supply chains and horizontally across different crop markets. Still, little is known about how traders use this advantageous position and specialized knowledge to advance sustainability and equity goals. This thesis investigates the identified research gap using the Delphi Method and engages with traders not only as the research target but also as research participants. Working alongside academic and trading practitioners, the overall aim of this thesis is to address barriers preventing traders from operationalizing sustainability and looks at traders' self-perceived roles, responsibilities, and opportunities in furthering sustainability objectives in tropical agriculture supply chains. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | Silverman, S., Carodenuto, S., & Grabs, J. (2023). Adventures in Transdisciplinary Translation: Co-creating and Vetting a Novel Research Agenda on Trading Companies as Sustainability Governance Actors. SAGE Publications Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529628371 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/15369 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Agriculture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Commodity traders | en_US |
| dc.subject | Supply chains | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sustainability | en_US |
| dc.title | Traders as Implementors of Sustainability in Tropical Agriculture Supply Chains | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |