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The Food System and Fair Trade Bob Doherty (University of York, IKnowFood) www.iknowfood.org The Challenge UN FAO estimates 60% more food will be demanded by 2050 Over the next 35 years will have to produce more food than we have to date

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The Food System and Fair Trade

Bob Doherty (University of York, IKnowFood)

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The Challenge

  • UN FAO estimates 60% more food will be demanded by 2050
  • Over the next 35 years will have to produce more food than we have to

date in history

  • By 2050 current agricultural practices will require 120% more water, 42%

more land and will alone result in 2 degrees rise in global temperature

  • Increasing magnitude of threats and shocks which are human made
  • Growing academic consensus that industrial agriculture is creating a

more vulnerable food system

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Concentration of Production

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Virtual Water content of food

Water required to produce 1kg litres/kg Location Tomatoes1 74 Spain Potato2 95 UK Sugar (cane)3 107 Swaziland Strawberries4 110 Spain Sugar (beet)5 429 Europe Milk6 600 Ireland Cereals7 1 622 Global average Meat (poultry)8 6 000 Global average Meat (bovine)9 17 700 UK

  • 1. Chapagain & Orr (2009), 2. . Hess et al. (2011), 3. Cid Quintas (2010), 4. Montesinos et al, (2011), 5. Coca Cola Co. & Nature Conservancy (2010), 6. Hess et al. (2012), 7.

Mekonnen & Hoekstra (2010), 8. UN World Water Development Report, (2003), 9. Chatterton et al. (2010)

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Climate Extremes Index

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Components of the Food System

(Ericksen, 2008)

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Food System Resilience

“Food system resilience is the ability of the system

  • ver time to learn, adapt and transform to cope at

multiple levels with external and internal stresses and shocks in order to provide supplies of food that are economically, socially, environmentally and nutritionally sustainable”.

(IKnowFood, 2017)

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Call lls for!

  • Increased agricultural diversity
  • Focus on Agroecology, intercropping etc.
  • Information sharing across the system
  • Risk sharing
  • More diverse forms of ownership
  • More innovative incentives for producers based on ecosystem

services

  • More social finance
  • Application of low-cost technologies
  • Focus on young agriculturists
  • Climate Change adaptation
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Responses

  • New trade agreements based on SDGs
  • Changes in public procurement rules
  • Private standards and company sustainability

programmes?

  • Increasing interest in diversified farming systems,

resilience, food security etc.

  • Growing number of hybrid organisations
  • Third party independent certification e.g. Fair

Trade

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Fairtrade worldwide

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Fair Trade Discourse

  • Key informant (Kenya) comments that our marketing communications is

different from fair trade in Europe; – “our message is different, we are not about helping the poor, the message is more about supporting producers we say; ‘Show your love for Africa, Buy Fairtrade!’

  • Likewise in SA an informant commented;

– "Our communications are different from Europe, we don’t do poor farmers here in our marketing as it does not work. “ Another states – We get tired of people generalising that Africa is full of famine, we simply love this continent it’s wonderful and has a natural beauty, wonderful people. Our coffee is the best coffee on the best continent! Rather than support us because it’s the right thing to do”.

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Global South Developments

  • Fair Trade Certified™ Indonesian Handline

Tuna Fishery Program

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Fairtrade Sales by Country

Spend per capita on FLO products

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Ireland Switzerland UK Finland Sweden Denmark Norway Netherlands France Germany Italy Japan Euros

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Fair Trade Promoting Resilience

  • A study by the Centre for Evaluation at Saarland

University in Germany found that smallholder farmers who benefited from Fairtrade enjoyed higher and more stable incomes than producers in the respective comparison groups

  • Study involving coffee farmers in Uganda showed

that participation in Fairtrade increased household living standards by 30% (Chiputwa, Spielman and Qaim, 2014)

  • Compared certified and non-certified farmers in the

Central Region of Uganda

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Fair Trade Promoting Resilience

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Fair Trade Promoting Resilience

  • Crop diversification schemes to combine

cash and food crops improve food security

  • Shared Interest, Oikocredit provide social

finance for innovative trade mechanisms for smallholder farmer groups

  • Crowd Funding
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The Story of Divine Chocolate Ltd

“ How a social enterprise built a farmer-

  • wned Fair Trade chocolate brand”
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2007 Highlight

Divine Chocolate announced its first dividend. As co-owners Kuapa Kokoo benefited by sharing in the profits.

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Fair Trade Promoting Resilience

  • Climate Change Academy in East Africa to

work with NGOs, producers, Government and business to encourage innovative approaches to climate change adaptation.

  • CLAC (Latin American and Caribbean Network
  • f Fair Trade Small Producers and Workers)

set-up Young Farmer Schools

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Ecosystem & Climate Change

  • 2011 Fairtrade certification strengthened its

environmental criteria to include; integrated pest management, prevention of soil erosion, improvement of soil fertility, sustainable use of water sources, sustainable waste management

  • 2015 Fairtrade Climate Standard , as a way for

smallholders and rural communities to gain access to the carbon market

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Working in collaboration!