Facts

Sustainability agenda

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Fairfood’s sustainability agenda comprises 24 issues that are rooted in three conceptual aspects of sustainability, i.e. Social, Environmental and Economic. All the issues are related to hunger and poverty, and are based on international conventions, agreements, and norms.

Social, environmental and economic issues

Fairfood’s sustainability agenda is inclusive in that it not only covers social and environmental issues but also the so-called “forgotten” economic and other issues essential to address for sustainable trade, such as tax avoidance, misuse of transfer-pricing, corruption and market-distorting subsidies.

Social issues:	Environmental issues:	Economic issues:
Insufficient Income and Income Insecurity Child Labour Unreasonable Working Hours Forced Labour Lack of Freedom of Association Unhealthy and Unsafe Working Conditions Discrimination Violation of Land Rights	Air pollution Water Mismanagement and Contamination Harmful Agricultural and Aquafarming Practices Lack of Animal Health and Welfare Degradation of Natural Ecosystems Restricted Access to Natural Resources	Tax Avoidance Abuse of Dominant Position Misuse of Transfer-pricing Market Distorting Subsidies Discriminatory Standards Lack of Access to Financial Services Insufficient Market-related Infrastructure Unclear Agreements Corruption Unfair Import Tariffs and Quotas

Problems and solutions

Taking our sustainability agenda as a starting point, Fairfood studies many different food sectors. This varies from cocoa to palm oil and from shrimps to sugar. We gather interesting facts and information on trade and sustainability on all the different links in the production chains of these sectors. Each sector has been designated priority issues, which are highlighted in the right-hand column. The priority issues are the most pressing problems in each sector according to Fairfood, extracted from the wider scope of our sustainability agenda.

It is important to keep in mind that there are many successes and examples of products that have been produced in a more sustainable manner. Fairfood is constantly researching and assessing such positive initiatives. We define sustainability solutions as initiatives that are successful in addressing social, ecological and economic sustainability issues in agro-food production, sourcing, processing or supply.