Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade.

ABSTRACT: The global trade of agricultural commodities has profound social-ecological impacts, from potentially increasing food availability and agricultural efficiency, to displacing local communities, and to incentivizing environmental destruction. Supply chain stickiness, understood as the stability in trading relationships between supply chain actors, moderates the impacts of agricultural commodity production and the possibilities for supply-chain interventions. However, what factors determine stickiness, that is, how and why farmers, traders, food processors, and consumer countries, develop and maintain trading relationships with specific producing regions, remains unclear. Here, we use data on the Brazilian soy supply chain, a mixed methods approach based on extensive actor-based fieldwork, an

SUBMITTER: Reis TNPD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9941754 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature