Fairfood Sustainability Agenda
Fairfood’s sustainability agenda comprises of 23 issues that are rooted in three conceptual aspects of sustainability, i.e. Social, Environmental and Economic issues. All of these 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, corruption and market-distorting subsidies.
Problems and solutions
With 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 analyse facts and information on trade and sustainability on all the different links in the production chains of these commodity sectors. Each commodity has a set of Major Chain Issues, which are highlighted in the right-hand column. These 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 bear 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.
