Tackling gender inequality and sustainability in agribusiness
Cut flowers are one of the top export products of Colombia. It is also an industry that struggles with sustainability and health issues for the low-skilled, mainly female, labour workers. This depicts the complex interaction between gender, labour, social and environmental issues.
Goal
The team aims to unfold the intricacies of global value chains, hopes to raise awareness from consumers to producers, and wishes to revise the international sustainability labels used in this business.
Theatre play
The challenges will be outlined in a review paper and depicted in a theatre play that endeavours to catalyse dialogue, empower stakeholders, and envision a more sustainable agribusiness landscape. This will potentially lead to a new way of thinking about the challenges of sustainability and visualize imaginative futures for the global production of cut flowers and other agribusinesses.
Team
- Geosciences - Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development - Environmental Sciences - Water Quality Management
- Law, Economics and Governance - Sustainable Development, Economic Development, International Trade
- Humanities - Institute for Cultural Inquiry - Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Humanities - Institute for Cultural Inquiry - Gender Studies
- Law, Economics and Governance - Utrecht University School of Law - International and European Law
- Law, Economics and Governance - Utrecht University School of Governance - Managing Social Issues
- Geosciences - Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development - Environmental Governance - Environmental Governance
- Veterinary Medicine - Department Population Health Sciences - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) - One Health Epidemiology Chemical Agents
Non-UU partners
- Prof. dr. Diego Leon Sepulveda Meija, Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavidade
- dr. John Alexander Benavides Piracón, Universidad del Rosario
- Erika González, Las mujeres en la industria colombiana de las flores (Women in the Colombian flower industry)