Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability

The research examines barriers to sustainability in forest-risk commodity supply chains, finding that while civil society pressure and certification drive action, systemic collaboration and practical, usable metrics for impact assessment remain significant gaps.

• Demand-side actors, such as consumer-goods companies and retailers, have adopted sustainable supply chain policies, but the implementation of data-driven tools for decision-making is not keeping pace with the development of those tools.
• Based on interviews and focus groups with manufacturers, retailers, NGOs, and data providers, the study identifies civil society pressure in consumer regions as a primary driver of action and certification as a common tool for reducing negative impacts, though systemic collaboration is lacking.
• Companies emphasize a requirement for metrics that are simple, timely, and meaningful, suggesting that practical usability is often overlooked in the pursuit of higher accuracy when capturing complex phenomena.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability. https://www.sei.org/publications/agricultural-supply-chain-sustainability/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/agricultural-supply-chain-sustainability/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability |date=26 September 2023 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/agricultural-supply-chain-sustainability/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023agricultural, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Agricultural Supply Chain Sustainability}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/agricultural-supply-chain-sustainability/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }