Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
Towards a More Sustainable Banana - Limitations and Strengths of a Territorial Approach | |
Clercx, L.1; Huyghe, B.2 | |
通讯作者 | Clercx, L. |
会议名称 | International ISHS-ProMusa Symposium on Bananas and Plantains - Towards Sustainable Global Production and Improved Use |
会议日期 | OCT 10-14, 2011 |
会议地点 | Salvador, BRAZIL |
英文摘要 | In the debate on sustainable supply chains of tropical agricultural products, important issues emerge: sustainable land and water use, maintaining biodiversity, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, waste disposal and recycling, reduction of agrochemicals, integrated pest management, nutrient cycles, soil conservation and so forth. International certifications in tropical fruits such as GlobalGAP, Rainforest Alliance, organic or fair-trade, have various limitations: (1) they acknowledge these emerging issues only partially; (2) the standards are uniform and do not take into account the heterogeneity of contexts and of opportunities to build up more sustainable supply chains; (3) these certifications are focused on the farm, the product or the producer organization, but not on the territory, the watershed, the agro-ecosystem and the wider context of local and regional institutional settings. To address these limitations, Agrofair and the TASTE Foundation conducted in-depth case studies of organic and fair-trade certified production systems, in their territorial settings in Peru and Ecuador. North Peru is an arid zone which heavily depends on irrigation, with smallholders who cultivate banana plots of 1 ha in monoculture systems. In South Ecuador, a semi-humid zone was studied, with medium sized producers (5-10 ha) and agroforestry systems (cocoa-forest-banana) in the hillsides. In a second dimension of the study, a rapid survey among five supermarkets in The Netherlands and Belgium and one procurement organization was carried out, to assess the feasibility to introduce a banana with a kind of denomination of origin: "mountain-grown banana" (Ecuador) or "savannah-grown banana" (Peru). Could these denominations be carriers of specific sustainability messages (on top of the organic and fair-trade labels)? The survey learned that the retail sector is not looking for complex messages or specific branding: these bananas may have their origin in very different regions, but are all genetically identical Cavendish bananas. However, there are signs that supermarkets are receptive for a more comprehensive approach to a more sustainable banana. This would open new action perspectives for a territorial approach and promotion of a banana with added environmental value. |
英文关键词 | Ecuador environment marketing mountain organic production systems Peru savannah supply chains |
来源出版物 | INTERNATIONAL ISHS-PROMUSA SYMPOSIUM ON BANANAS AND PLANTAINS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PRODUCTION AND IMPROVED USE |
ISSN | 0567-7572 |
EISSN | 2406-6168 |
出版年 | 2013 |
卷号 | 986 |
页码 | 353-362 |
EISBN | 978-90-66053-59-5 |
出版者 | INT SOC HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE |
类型 | Proceedings Paper |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Netherlands;Panama |
收录类别 | CPCI-S |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000332491200038 |
WOS类目 | Agronomy ; Horticulture |
WOS研究方向 | Agriculture |
资源类型 | 会议论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/302247 |
作者单位 | 1.TASTE Fdn, Koopliedenweg 10,POB 55, NL-2990 AB Barendrecht, Netherlands; 2.Agrofair Latin Amer SA, Panama City, Panama |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Clercx, L.,Huyghe, B.. Towards a More Sustainable Banana - Limitations and Strengths of a Territorial Approach[C]:INT SOC HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE,2013:353-362. |
条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 |
个性服务 |
推荐该条目 |
保存到收藏夹 |
导出为Endnote文件 |
谷歌学术 |
谷歌学术中相似的文章 |
[Clercx, L.]的文章 |
[Huyghe, B.]的文章 |
百度学术 |
百度学术中相似的文章 |
[Clercx, L.]的文章 |
[Huyghe, B.]的文章 |
必应学术 |
必应学术中相似的文章 |
[Clercx, L.]的文章 |
[Huyghe, B.]的文章 |
相关权益政策 |
暂无数据 |
收藏/分享 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。