By Marcello De Maria* & Amayaa Wijesinghe§ * School of Agriculture, Policy and Development – University of Reading § UNEP-WCMC This post is based on a scoping study of the global soybean trade conducted by the GCRF TRADE Hub, detailed in our new report Global Soybean Trade – The Geopolitics of a Bean. The global […]
Why the WTO Environment Week is a big deal for global environmental governance (and the future of trade itself) Post by Elena Antoni – Project Manager and Co-Investigator of Policy Impacts and Solutions at the UKRI GCRF TRADE Hub The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is hosting its second ‘Trade and Environment Week’, from the 16th […]
TRADE Hub researchers Lacour Mody Ayompe (University of California, Irvine), Marije Schaafsma (University of Southampton) and Benis Egoh (University of California, Irvine) recently published a paper entitled ‘Towards sustainable palm oil production: the positive and negative impacts on ecosystem services and human wellbeing’. The main findings of this paper are summarized below (access the original […]
For the first time, the high inequality in the distribution of agricultural land ownership in Brazil has been analysed using geospatial information about rural property ownership. The 10th Issue of Sustainability in Debate, a publication by TRADE Hub partner Imaflora, is entitled “Who are the owners of agricultural land in Brazil – a map of […]