Global value chains, food and just transition: a multi-scale approach to Brazilian soy value chains
Renato S. Maluf, Luciene Burlandy, Rosângela Pezza Cintrão, Emília Jomalinis, Mariana Santarelli, Theresa Tribaldos
Abstract
The article analyses the Brazilian soy value chains using a justice-based, multi-scale approach following the international debate on just transition to sustainable and healthy food systems in the context of climate change. It highlights the challenges and limits to promote just transitions based on dominant global value chains, while assessing private strategies as false solutions for sustainability and climate change. The multi-scale approach allows for linking global trends and private strategies to their intersections with local and national food systems. Systemic drivers of inequalities together with parameters for promoting food and environmental justices are the backdrop of the approach.