Ermgassen Lab

University of Louvain

Région wallonne (BE3) · Belgium

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

The role of domestic markets and public policy for sustainable food systems: the case of Brazil

Existing literature on agricultural markets, telecoupling, and supply chain governance focuses on global value chains, largely overlooking domestic markets – though these are responsible for the majority of food (74-88%), agricultural land use (78%), deforestation (61-71%), and global land use emissions (73%). A key barrier to the study of domestic markets is the lack of data. While country-level data are commonly used to track international trade, the data necessary to map subnational trade flows within domestic markets are seldom collated. In the proposed project we will bridge this knowledge gap by integrating novel datasets sourced from citizen science, wholesale markets, freight…

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