Tackling gender inequality and sustainability in agribusiness

illustration of a woman sitting in a big flower

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

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)