The environmental polycrisis and global production networks: insights from agriculture in South Africa, Kenya, and Nicaragua
研究了气候变化、生物多样性丧失和水资源短缺等环境多重危机如何通过影响、破坏和协同等环境互动重塑农业全球生产网络，并给小农户带来不均等的环境风险及负面经济社会后果。
Abstract The environmental polycrisis, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, touches down in agricultural global production networks (GPNs) through different environmental interactions. Drawing on environmental economic geography and critical systems thinking, we propose a novel conceptualization to trace environmental interactions of influence, disruption, and synergy, and their implications for GPNs, GPN actors, and the environmental risks they face. Through empirical material from horticulture in South Africa and Kenya and cocoa in Nicaragua, we demonstrate this conceptualization’s relevance by showing how environmental interactions reshape GPNs, creating uneven environmental risks for smallholders accompanied by often adverse economic and social implications.