“Fair for All? The Impact of the EU Deforestation Regulation on Peruvian Smallholder Farmers”

Description

Can efforts to save the Amazon rainforest actually harm the people who live there? Europe’s new deforestation law aims to make products like chocolate more sustainable but on the flip side, it could force Peruvian cocoa farmers into poverty. The livelihoods of the farmers are at stake while Europe attempts to go green. Join us as we explore the unintended consequences of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the challenges of balancing global conservation goals with the needs of local communities, through the lens of SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities. Dr. Anke Kaulard, a leading sociologist, helps us unpack the paradoxes of market-driven policies. Tune in for an insightful conversation about finding equitable solutions for a more sustainable world!

Work Process and Progress

For the work process, group meetings were held at the beginning where all group members participated in designing the content and structure of the podcast. Reviews and refinements of the script and documents were done as a collective effort from all group members with recurring feedback and editing of the script and podcast. All group members also gave feedback to other groups.

Main role holders

Contacting speakers

Beatriz and Ciro contacted potential speakers through email. Ciro’s speaker was the one selected, so communications continued with him afterwards.

Podcast Hosts

Noemi and Alex were the hosts of the podcast for the draft and final version. They performed the interview with the guest speaker and were the voices for the podcast.

Audio Editing

Beatriz edited the podcast audio. 2

Scriptwriting

Ciro wrote the script, Ayana edited the script and formatted it.

Peer review and feedback incorporation

Ayana and Ciro provided feedback for other groups & incorporated the received feedback.

References and Relevant Research

Busscher, N., Krueger, R., & Parra, C. (2020). Analysing the governance of land grabbing from a combined political ecology and environmental justice perspective. Communities, Land and Social Innovation: Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World, 59.

Busscher, N., Parra, C., & Vanclay, F. (2020). Environmental justice implications of land grabbing for industrial agriculture and forestry in Argentina. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 63(3), 500-522.

Garland, E. (2022). Decent work deficits among rural workers: Key findings and recommendations for Trade Unions. ILO.

Gilbert, C. L. (2024). The EU Deforestation Regulation. EuroChoices.

Kaulard, A. (2024, December 9). Personal interview.

Kaulard, A. (2024). Local “sweetening” of the Cocoa Commodity? Alternative Economies in the Peruvian Amazon. ReVista. Retrieved from: https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/local-sweetening-of-the-cocoa-commodity-alternative-economies-in-the-peruvian-amazon/

Kramarz, T., Park, S., & Johnson, C. (2021). Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements. Energy Research & Social Science, 74, 101902.

Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego del Perú – MIDAGRI. (2018). Análisis de la cadena productiva de Cacao con enfoque en los pequeños productores de limitado acceso al mercado. Retrieved from: https://repositorio.midagri.gob.pe/jspui/bitstream/20.500.13036/66/5/analisis%20de%20la%20cadena%20productiva%20del%20cacao.pdf

Paredes, M., & Anke Kaulard. (2020). Fighting the climate crisis in persistently unequal land regimes: Natural protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon. Journal of Cleaner Production, 265, 121605–121605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121605

Paredes, M., & Kaulard, A.. (2023). Forest as ‘nature’ or forest as territory? Knowledge, power, and climate change conservation in the Peruvian Amazon (pp. 595–616). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003467960-25

Parra, C., & Moulaert, F. (2016). The governance of the nature-culture nexus: Lessons learned from the San Pedro de Atacama case study. Nature and Culture, 11(3), 239-258.

Reading, I., Bika, K., Drakesmith, T., McNeill, C., Cheesbrough, S., Byrne, J., & Balzter, H. (2024). Due Diligence for Deforestation-Free Supply Chains with Copernicus Sentinel-2 Imagery and Machine Learning. Forests, 15(4), 617.

Traide. (2024, December 5). Grounds for concern: Ethiopia’s Coffee Sector Faces challenges in becoming EUDR compliant. TRAIDE. Retrieved from: https://traide.org/activities/grounds-for-concern-ethiopias-coffee-sector-faces-challenges-in-becoming-eudr-compliant/

Voice Network. (2020). Cocoa Barometer 2020. Voice Network. Retrieved from: https://voicenetwork.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-Cocoa-Barometer.pdf

Music

https://freemusicarchive.org/