Unsustainable fishing practices, including the use of non-selective fishing methods and Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, contribute to the decline of tuna fish stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). This has led to emergence of different public and private governance arrangements to foster the sustainable exploitat...
Sustainable development in global food markets is hindered by the discrepancy between positive consumer attitudes towards sustainable development or sustainability and the lack of corresponding sustainable consumption by a majority of consumers. Apparently for many (light user) consumers the ‘importance’ of ‘sustainability’ has a meaning that is no...
The thesis explores whether and how analytical activities during the policy formulation process - typically referred to as Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) - contribute to a reorientation of policy-making towards the goals of sustainable development. During the 1990s and the 2000s, many OECD countries introduced, extended or formalised proce-dure...
This deliverable describes a formalizlogistical concepts in the practicalchains and for assessing theiBeWhere and LocaGIStics. It describesthese two logistical assessment toolsinterlinked so that LocaGIStics can further refine and detail the outcomes of theBeWhere model and that the BeWhere model can use the outcome of theLocaGIStics model to modif...
Deze studie is uitgevoerd als ondersteuning voor het opstellen van een Actieplan Bos en Hout. Het Actieplan is een initiatief van alle spelers in de bos- en houtsector en beoogt het verduurzamen van de sector en het vergroten van de duurzame bijdrage van de sector aan de bio-economie. Het houtgebruik in Nederland gaat waarschijnlijk stijgen van 0,9...
In opdracht van het ministerie van Economische Zaken en Topsector Agri & Food heeft LEIWageningen UR de state-of-the-art in kaart gebracht op het gebied van de duurzaamheidsprestatiesvoor vier belangrijke grondstoffen van de aardappel-, suiker-, varkensvlees- en zuivelketen. De viergrondstoffen zijn: land, water, energie en fosfaat. De focus in dit...
The S2Biom project - Delivery of sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a “resource-efficient” Bioeconomy in Europe - supports the sustainable delivery of nonfood biomass feedstock at local, regional and pan European level through developing strategies, and roadmaps that will be informed by a “computerized and easy to use” toolset (and r...
This study reports on the extent to which sustainability initiatives in the cocoa, coffee and soy value chainshave been scaled up by companies. We have investigated how the private sector can be further stimulated to engage in, sustain and increase their involvement in actions to increase the sustainability of commodity chains with links to the Net...
Globally, bio-based business is often perceived as sustainable, because its renewable production can potentially lower carbon and greenhouse emissions by substituting fossil-fuel-based production, reduce environmental sourcing problems, and create turnover and jobs. However, bio-based business can also bring sustainability challenges. Urged to expl...
Knowledge building is central to agroecology rooted in family farming. But why?What type of knowledge, and whose knowledge is mobilised? This issue ofFarming Matters explores what we really mean by co-creation of knowledge inagroecology, why it is so essential for today’s challenges, and how it takes placearound the world.
