Category: Agriculture
Nature-Positive Trade: Identifying Opportunities for the Sustainable Use of Marine Resources, Including Sustainable Fisheries
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On October 10, the TRADE Hub co-organised the second webinar of its new “Nature-positive trade” series. This webinar focused on identifying opportunities for trade policy in supporting sustainable use of marine resources, including fisheries.
The event was a collaboration between … Read More
Nature Positive Trade: Identifying Opportunities for Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity
Posted onOn June 16, the TRADE Hub co-organised the first webinar of its new “Nature-positive trade” series. This webinar focused on identifying opportunities for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity with a view to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted by countries … Read More
The Crucial Role of the Private Sector in Helping to Deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework through Trade
Posted onWhen Illegality Becomes the Norm, Reducing Illegal Trade of Wildlife is a Steep Hill to Climb
Posted onRodrigo Oyanedel
This post introduces and summarizes research published in the journal Conservation Biology. Click here for the full publication.
1. Introduction and Context
Sustainable, well-regulated wildlife trade helps support biodiversity, provides livelihoods around the world and is crucial … Read More
Innovative mechanisms to overcome barriers to ending deforestation in agricultural supply chains
Posted on17 March 2021
A webinar was held to promote TRADE Hub’s research on mechanisms to help end deforestation in agricultural supply chains and foster further collaboration between the Hub and the private sector. This included participants from a range of … Read More
Measuring the impact of agricultural supply chains on biodiversity: A corporate needs assessment
Posted onNew working paper through a GCRF TRADE Hub collaboration
Businesses with agricultural supply chains depend on and impact biodiversity, both directly through their activities and indirectly through their supply chains and there is growing momentum to better assess and manage … Read More
The Great Soybean Expansion: Miracle or Curse?
Posted onBy Marcello De Maria* & Amayaa Wijesinghe§
* School of Agriculture, Policy and Development – University of Reading
This post is based on a scoping study of the global soybean trade conducted by the GCRF TRADE … Read More
The WTO Environment Week Nov 16-20:
Posted onWhy 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 … Read More
The social and environmental impacts of the palm oil trade
Posted onTRADE 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 … Read More