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- Afrane, George, et al.
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A product chain organisation study of certified cocoa supply
- 2013
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In: 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, LCM2013, 25-28 August 2013,Göteborg.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cocoa supplies may become limited in the future. Demands for sustainable cocoa sparked an exploration of the product chain organisation of conventional and certified cocoa from Ghana. The comparison shows that transparency requirements have led to a more complex product chain. Even so, certification has yielded important productivity increases resulting in environmental benefits (e.g. reduced greenhouse gas emissions) and improved livelihoods for smallholder farmers.
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- Keller, Emma, et al.
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Quantifying and managing GHG emissions in global agri-food supply chains: A case study on cocoa farming in Ghana.
- 2013
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In: 7th International Society for Industrial Ecology conference.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Agriculture contributes approximately a third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Increasingly, food manufacturers and retailers are looking to use their controlling position in the agri-food supply chain to promote sustainability through improved farm management practices. One important mechanism to achieve this is through promoting consumer products certified by schemes, such as Rainforest Alliance or Fair-trade, among others. These schemes provide an assurance that certain general management standards are being met. However, these forms of certification rarely cover specific impacts such as contribution to climate change. Understanding the GHG impact of different farm management practices requires reliable and quantitative tools based on information which farmers can readily supply and providing results in a readily intelligible form. Such a tool should ideally be universally applicable, not just to food production in the developed world.This contribution describes an application of the ‘Cool Farm Tool’ developed at the University of Aberdeen for a consortium of food manufacturers (Hillier et al., 2011) for quantifying farm-level GHG emissions, to test its applicability on the developing world, specifically on cocoa farms in Ghana with different experiences of ‘sustainability’ and certification. The results suggest that environmentally certified farms have a lower GHG emission profile than non-certified farms and also provide some indication into the key practices driving the difference, particularly land-use change and provision of shade trees which sequester carbon. Furthermore, the case study highlights the challenges of using the tool with smallholders and the complexities of modelling the cocoa production system. The key insights are used to provide recommendations for improving the tool, the replicability of the approach at scale in a global food chain and the possible implications for certification design.
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- Borg, Josefin, 1985, et al.
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Collaborating for energy efficiency in Swedish shipping industry: interrelating practice and challenges
- 2020
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In: Environment, Development and Sustainability. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-2975 .- 1387-585X. ; 22:5, s. 4289-4310
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As achieving environmental sustainability is a complex problem, it is often recognized that no organization can accomplish this systemic change by itself; thus, multi-actor collaboration is needed. Regarding the specific issue of increased energy efficiency, previous research has highlighted the need for collaboration and knowledge exchange among actors. However, insights from literature suggest that despite all the good intentions, establishing multi-actor collaboration can be both complicated and difficult to achieve in practice. In this paper, an in-depth qualitative, ethnographic-inspired study of an emerging collaboration aiming for increased energy efficiency within the shipping industry is used as a foundation to better understand the practices and challenges involved in the organizing of multi-actor collaboration. The findings reveal how the interrelating of collaboration practices and experienced challenges influenced the development of the collaboration. The paper contributes to the current discussion on how to organize for sustainable development. Also, practitioners managing and participating in multi-actor collaborations addressing complex societal issues can benefit from the findings.
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- Borg, Josefin, 1985
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Collaborating for Energy Efficient Shipping - An Ethnographic Study
- 2018
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to better understand the emergent organising of an inter-organisational collaboration for energy efficiency in shipping, from a practice-oriented perspective. Interorganisational collaboration is often pointed to as a means towards sustainable development, and research on energy efficiency collaboration has emerged over the last decade. However, the number of studies on the topic remains low, and there is a lack of knowledge about how such arrangements are accomplished in practice. Previous research has indicated that collaboration can be a successful means in order to increase energy efficiency performances and efforts. However, studies on other types of inter-organisational collaboration have shown that despite all the good intentions, establishing and sustaining such endeavours can be difficult in practice. The exploration of energy efficiency collaboration from a practice-oriented perspective can thus allow for a better understanding about what makes such arrangements thrive or struggle. The thesis presents an ethnographic study of Sweship Energy; an interorganisational collaboration aiming for increased energy efficiency in the Swedish shipping sector. The execution of an in-depth, longitudinal study enabled for a close-up exploration of aspects like practices and experienced challenges within the initiative, and how these shifted over time. The research explores three aspects in particular: 1) how challenges experienced by the practitioners can be understood; 2) the development of collaborative practices; and 3) how the emergent organising of the collaboration can be characterised. The thesis contributes witha more nuanced understanding of the complexities in establishing and maintaining energy efficiency collaboration, and for the tasks of achieving positive outcomes from such endeavours. The study also contributes with relevant insights to practitioners participating in such initiatives. By extending the knowledge about experienced challenges and practices, the study can improve the awareness and reflections about practitioners’ actions in the collaborative setting. Thus, hopefully, the thesis also contributes to a greater chance for energy efficiency collaborations to succeed and survive by decreasing the risk of collaborative inertia.
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- Borg, Josefin, 1985, et al.
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Collaboration for Sustainable Development: Interrelating Practice and Challenges
- 2018
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In: Book of abstracts ISPIM March 2018. - 9789523352162
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As achieving environmental sustainability is a complex problem, it isoften recognized that no organization can accomplish this systemic change by itself, thus multi-actor collaboration is needed. Also regarding the specific issue of increased energy efficiency, previous research has highlighted the need for collaboration and knowledge exchange. However, we know from the literature, that despite all good intentions, establishing multi-actor collaboration can be bothcomplicated and difficult in practice. In this paper, we present a qualitative study of an emerging collaboration aiming for increased energy efficiency within the shipping industry. The overall aim of the study is to gain a more profound understanding of the organizing of multi-actor collaboration aiming at creating prerequisites for innovation related to sustainable development. Through an ethnographic-inspired approach, we are guided by the research question: How do practices and experienced challenges influence the development of emerging collaboration?
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- Borg, Josefin, 1985
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Den maritima näringen i Västra Götaland
- 2015
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denna rapport är en kartläggning av den maritima näringen i Västra Götaland. Eftersom den maritima näringen har blivit utpekad som ett utav fem styrkeområden i regionen så pågår nu en satsning för ökat samarbete mellan myndigheter, akademi och industri. Initiativet delas in i sex utvecklingsområden; maritima operationer, marina livsmedel, marin turism, marin energi, marin bioteknik och havsförvaltning. Det finns ett behov av ökad kunskap om de aktörer som utgör det maritima klustret och vardera av dessa sex områden. Syftet med studien är att få en ökad förståelse för sammansättningen av det maritima klustret i Västra Götaland och att få en ökad kunskap om vilka företag som klustret inkluderar. Kartläggningen inkluderar aktiebolag, partrederier och licensierade yrkesfiskare. Majoriteten av datan är från bokslutet 2011. Rapporten använder Vinnovas studie ”Den svenska maritima näringen 2007-2011” som grund men vidareutvecklar arbetet genom att bland annat utgå ifrån de sex utvecklingsområdena aktuella för Västra Götaland, kategorisera aktörerna utifrån dessa områden, addera licensierade yrkesfiskare och vissa ytterligare aktiebolag till statistiken samt visualisera informationen med hjälp av programmen ”Västra Götaland eXplorer” och”Microsoft Excel”. Sammanlagt finns 2059 stycken maritima arbetsställen i Västra Götaland, 56 % av dessa har fem eller färre anställda. Även om tyngdpunkten av näringslivet finns i Göteborg och Bohuslän är företagen spridda över länet och endast fem kommuner saknar närvaro av minst ett maritimt företag. Göteborg är den kommun som har flest företag lokaliserade hos sig och är ett viktigt nav i det maritima klustret. De två största utvecklingsområdena enligt studien är maritima operationer och marina livsmedel. Marin bioteknik och marin energi har stor potential för utveckling med avancerad forskning i regionen men idag finns enbart ett fåtal aktiebolag inom dessa områden. Utvecklingsområdet marin turism är underskattat i kartläggningen.
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- Borg, Josefin, 1985, et al.
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Inter-organizational collaboration for energy efficiency in the maritime sector: the case of a database project
- 2019
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In: Energy Efficiency. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1570-646X .- 1570-6478. ; 12:8, s. 2201-2213
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores the complexities of establishing knowledge-sharing practices between organizations through a case study of the creation of a database for energy efficiency measures relevant to the shipping sector. As researchers and policy-makers tend to point towards knowledge sharing and collaboration as means towards a more energy-efficient society, there is a need to better understand the knowledge sharing practices in such initiatives. The study is based upon extensive fieldwork where the first author was recruited to a collaborative network on energy efficiency in the shipping sector, to aid in the development of the collaboration while carrying out participatory-observational research in an ethnographic tradition. The study highlights the need to maintain realistic expectations for new knowledge-sharing collaborations, and the necessity to allow such arrangements to develop over time. © 2019, The Author(s).
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