Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 13:45 - 15:15 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B2-m8
This caucus welcomes scholars and practitioners who are interested in the topic of sustainability in the agriculture-food systems. We aim to discuss opportunities and challenges for promoting sustainable agri-food systems, such as transition to organic/regenerative farming, improving food system resilience, reducing global food security, and promoting farm/farmer vitality and well-being.
This caucus aims to create an informal network of AOM scholars who are interested in the topic of sustainability in the agriculture-food systems. Agri-food production is a major driver of climate change. Food production is the main reason for deforestation, biodiversity loss and soil degradation with agriculture being responsible for 86% of species threatened with extinction. A sustainable food system delivers food security and nutrition in a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition for future generation is not compromised. Promoting sustainability in the agri-food systems involves transition from conventional food systems to alternative approaches (e.g., organic food production, regenerative agri-food system, and circular food economy) across the entire food value chain (e.g., agriculture, food processing and retail, food service, and disposal). Such transition could involve business model and product innovation in agri-food business, use of new technology or forgotten practices to improve food system resilience, solving the food waste problem, addressing global food security, and improving vitality/well-being of farms, farmers, and their communities.
We are planning to use the caucus session to discuss topics including research opportunities and challenges for promoting sustainable agri-food systems. The academic research interest on the topic of sustainable food systems could involve a phenomenological approach or a traditional theory-driven approach (or a blend of the two). It can involve micro, mezzo, and macro-levels of research (e.g., firm-level, inter-firm level, team or individual-level, or country/economy-level). It can involve for-profit, non-profit, and governmental organizations and collaborations across different types of organizations and geographies. We aim to connect scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and backgrounds who share an interest in understanding how various organizations, actors, and institutions can initiate and promote transition to sustainable food systems. This caucus is a space for scholars and practitioners to explore and brainstorm how our individual and collective research and other efforts can create and support a shift towards a food system that addresses the externalities created by conventional food systems. No pre-registration is required.
Caucus Agenda: The caucus will be organized as follows: 1) The organizers introduce the caucus; 2) First table discussion; 3) Second table discussion, 4) Full group discussion and next steps; 5) Concluding remarks.
Potential questions to be discussed include (but not limit to):
- What motivates researchers to engage with this topic through research and/or teaching?
- What are the opportunities and challenges in conducting food research and teaching?
- What are conventional vs. sustainable agri-food practices that are particularly germane to research or use in teaching?
- How can management scholars contribute to the evolution of sustainable agri-food system?
- What would be good for an academic community interested in sustainable agri-business to explore and share?
Caucus Organizers:
Yasemin K. Kor
Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
Contact information: y.kor@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Danchi Tan
Professor of International Business, Founder and Director of NCCU Center for Business Sustainability, National Chengchi University
Contact information: dctan@nccu.edu.tw
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Yasemin Kor
Yasemin Kor Person
Cambridge
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