BQI Beacon: Issue #3

Academic works featured and their key messages

1. Scudiero, Lavinia, et al. “Understanding household and food system determinants of chicken and egg consumption in India.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Chicken and egg consumption in India is low, uneven, and influenced by socio-cultural, household, and supply-side factors.

2. Watanabe, Hiroki, and Fumikazu Ubukata. “Does international environmental certification change local production and trade practices? A case study of shrimp farming in southern Vietnam.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: A case study of international environmental certification of shrimp farming in Vietnam shows little effect on farming methods and trade relationships.

3. Resnick, Danielle, and Johan F. M. Swinnen, eds. “The political economy of food system transformation: Pathways to progress in a polarized world.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: To transform animal agriculture and the current food system, it is important to understand the political economic forces that shape it.

4. Moungsree, Savitree, et al. “Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint of maize-based feed products for animal farming in Thailand.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Feed production for pigs, broiler chickens, and laying hens in Thailand has high GHG emissions due to the use of maize grain, fish meal, and soybean meal.

5. Martin, Sarah J., and Charles Mather. “'Finprint' technopolitics and the corporatisation of global food governance.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: The farmed salmon industry uses technical metrics to claim their product is sustainable, gain power, and export the industrial aquaculture model to the Global South.

6. Vázquez, Karen Hudlet. “Interconnected violences and interconnected resistances: Alliances for resisting meat factories in the Americas.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Not simple and easy for different organizations (human rights, environmental, food sovereignty, animal rights/ vegan) tackling mega meat farms in Latin America to form alliances.

7. Molnár, Mariann. “Enhancing farm animal welfare through animal housing technology certification and alternative farming systems.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Farm animal housing technology certification systems and alternative farming practices are two good ways to address intensive animal farming in European transition economies.

Brief mention (non-academic reports)

1. World Bank. “. . .Achieving net zero emissions in the agrifood system.”
2. FAO. “The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2024.”