Improving Standards and Certification in Agri-Food Supply Chains

Ensuring Safety, Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80146-451-2
Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

There is increasing scrutiny of the safety, environmental and social impact of food production by both consumers and governments. However, ensuring safe, sustainable and socially responsible agricultural production is crucially reliant on farmers and others complying with an increasingly complex range of standards and certification schemes.

Improving standards and certification in agri-food supply chains: Ensuring safety, sustainability and social responsibility provides an authoritative overview of the range of standards used to maintain and improve quality, environmental and ethical standards in agri-food supply chains. The book considers the role of good agricultural practices (GAPs), as well as key organisations, such as the Sustainable Agriculture Network, LEAF and the Rainforest Alliance, in ensuring high standards.

In its extensive review of agri-food supply chains, the book showcases how crucial complying with standards and schemes is to ensuring safe, sustainable and socially responsible agricultural production.

Zielgruppe

Those researching safety and quality in agri-food supply chains in universities and other research centres, environmental scientists, NGOs, as well as governmental and other food safety agencies responsible for setting standards and developing certification schemes to achieve safer, more sustainable and socially responsible agricultural production

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manning, Professor Louise

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hielm, Dr Amanda

Manning, Professor Louise

Sampson, Dr Gregory

Pampin, Ms Pilar

Tallontire, Professor Anne

Treweek, Dr Jo

Capote, Dr Rene

McCord, Dr Mona

Dwyer, Professor Janet

Newsom, Ms Deanna

Thorning, Dr Anna

Djama, Dr Marcel

Kuhnert, Dr Matthias

Dicks, Dr Lynn

Monaghan, Professor James

de Olde, Dr Evelien

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Lebensmittelsicherheit und -versorgung
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tierhaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Setting standards
- 1.The international context: the role of Codex Alimentarius in setting safety and quality standards for global agri-food supply chains: Amanda Hielm, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Italy
- 2.The role of governments and food safety agencies in setting safety, quality and sustainability standards in agri-food supply chains: Louise Manning, Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, University of Lincoln, UK
- 3.The role and range of voluntary standards and certification systems governing sustainable agricultural practices: Gregory Sampson, International Trade Centre (ITC), Switzerland
- 4.The role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in improving safety, quality and sustainability standards in agri-food supply chains: Pilar Pampin, LEAF, UK

Part 2 The expanding scope of agri-food chain standards
- 5.Sustainability standards and certification for agriculture: an overview: Anne Tallontire, University of Leeds, UK
- 6.Key issues in developing robust carbon-neutral certification schemes for agriculture: Louise Manning, Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, University of Lincoln, UK
- 7.Key issues in developing biodiversity offsetting certification schemes: Jo Treweek, Treweek Environmental Consultants, UK
- 8.The role of standards in improving the sustainability of livestock production: Evelien de Olde, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- 9.Developing good agricultural practices across global agri-food supply chains: Louise Manning, Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, University of Lincoln, UK
- 10.Defining sustainable agricultural principles and practices: the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN): Mona McCord, Technical and Development Director - Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), USA

Part 3 Individual standards
- 11.The use of the LEAF Marque standard in promoting integrated farm management (IFM) practices: Janet Dwyer, University of Gloucestershire, UK
- 12.The role of the Rainforest Alliance in reconciling farming, environmental and social sustainability: Deanna Newsom, Evaluation and Research Team - Rainforest Alliance, USA
- 13.The role of certification and verification schemes in sustainable forest management (SFM): Anna Thorning, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
- 14.Sustainability certification in palm oil cultivation: Marcel Djama, CIRAD/Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Part 4 Measuring compliance and improving performance
- 15.The role of technology in ensuring safety, quality and sustainability in agri-food supply chains: guaranteeing greater traceability and transparency: Louise Manning, Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, University of Lincoln, UK
- 16.Improving good agricultural practices related to product safety on farms: James Monaghan, Harper Adams University, UK
- 17.Measuring on-farm carbon footprints/greenhouse gas emissions: Matthias Kuhnert, University of Aberdeen, UK
- 18.Conclusions: Louise Manning, Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology, University of Lincoln, UK

Über Autor(innen)

Manning, Professor Louise
Dr Louise Manning is Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln, UK. With over 30 years of experience in both industry and research, and over 125 peer-reviewed publications, Professor Manning is internationally-renowned for both her research and consultancy work on food safety and quality, agri-food systems, food integrity and crime. She is an Associate Editor for the British Food Journal and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Rothamsted Research. Professor Manning has previously edited Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality, published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2021.

Pampin, Ms Pilar
Pilar Pampin is an agronomist with a farming background, who was born and raised in Uruguay. Since 2020 she has lived in United Kingdom, where she completed her Master's studies in Agroecology at Harper Adams University. She currently works in LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming), a UK-based charity leading in the delivery of sustainable food and farming.

Manning, Professor Louise
Dr Louise Manning is Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln, UK. With over 30 years of experience in both industry and research, and over 125 peer-reviewed publications, Professor Manning is internationally-renowned for both her research and consultancy work on food safety and quality, agri-food systems, food integrity and crime. She is an Associate Editor for the British Food Journal and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Rothamsted Research. Professor Manning has previously edited Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality, published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2021.

Kuhnert, Dr Matthias
Dr Matthias Kuhnert is an environmental modeller, with a wide range of experience in using data from different scales. His recent focus was on simulations of greenhouse gas emissions and soil organic carbon changes in croplands, impacts of data aggregation on model results and the development of measuring, reporting and verification systems for soil organic carbon.