Question

I need help to understand what going on in the article from Sustainabilityconsortium.org on "Big Food and Little Data: The Slow Harvest of Corporate Food Supply Chain Sustainability Initiatives"by Susanne Freidberg. Write 1-3 paragraph summary based on what topics issues does it covers? And why this article is so important?

Answer 1

'' Big Food'' , a collection of companies, have launched aspiring programs over past several years to assess and improve the sustainability of their raw material supply chains.These efforts are different from earlier corporate food supply chain governance as they rely more on metrics of continuous improvement than compliance with standards.They also include staple ingredients such as corn and soy apart from high-value, high-profile products .

This article includes the assemblage concept which not only describes the many actors, technologies, and practices now working to get certain kinds of data flowing off farms but also highlights the relational nature of this work and the uncertainty of its outcomes.Moreover it points to the limits of both corporate food power and the very notion of Big Food.

This article is important because it explains how companies deal with the issue of the sustainability of their raw material supply chains both as an individual supply chain and also as a member of multistakeholder initiatives.