Kerri Bridges (UCL) - 2025-26 Students
kerri.bridges.20@ucl.ac.uk

Have global value chains shaped sustainability? If so, how?

This project explores tension between the meaning and practices of ‘sustainability’ in food production involving global value chains. I am particularly interested in investigating the power of corporate narratives in shaping rules and norms: until recently, the food sustainability governance landscape has predominantly involved voluntary standards and certifications, rather than national or international law. I seek to develop a genealogy of how such standards might echo into incoming EU legislation that addresses sustainable production in global value chains, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the Deforestation Regulation.

Primary supervisor: Dr Pedro Schilling De Carvalho