TRANS SUSTAIN wins Best Paper Award at the IFAMA World Conference 2016

The TRANS SUSTAIN team is excited to announce that its submission “Understanding Coffee Certification Dynamics: A Spatial Analysis of Voluntary Sustainability Standard Proliferation” was awarded the Best Paper Award prize in the category “relevance to managers” at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association IFAMA Symposium 2016 in Aarhus, Denmark.

TRANS SUSTAIN’s work on mapping and analyzing current pathways toward voluntary sustainability standard participation for smallholder coffee farmers highlights the importance of international supply chain actors in advocating and rolling out sustainability schemes. The Best Paper Award recognition underscores that its conclusions are particularly informative for agribusiness managers who are increasingly active in integrating considerations of sustainability and food security in their interaction with smallholder suppliers.

As Best Paper Award recipient, “Understanding Coffee Certification Dynamics: A Spatial Analysis of Voluntary Sustainability Standard Proliferation” will be published in the Special Symposium Edition of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, a top-rated journal with the highest impact factor among agribusiness journals.                                                

The International Food and Agribusiness Management Association IFAMA is an international management organization that brings together current and future business, academic, and government leaders along with other industry stakeholders to improve the strategic focus, transparency, sustainability, and responsiveness of the global food and agribusiness system.