Food is a source of nourishment, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a means of influence, and signifies good health and well-being. Together with other life enhancing goods such as clean water, unpolluted air, adequate shelter and suitable clothing, food is a basic good which is necessary for human flourishing. In recent times, however, various environmental and social challenges have emerged, which are having a profound effect on both the natural world and built environment – such as climate change, feeding a growing world population, nutritional poverty and obesity. Consequently, whilst the relationships between producers, supermarkets, regulators and the individual have never been more important, they are becoming increasingly complicated.
In the context of a variety of hard and soft law solutions, with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR), the authors explore the current relationship between all actors in the global food supply chain. Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain also provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary response to current calls for reform in relation to social and environmental justice, and proposes an alternative approach to current CSR initiatives. This comprises an innovative multi-agency proposal, with the aim of achieving a truly responsible and sustainable food retail system. Because only by engaging in the widest possible participatory exercise and reflecting on the urban locale in novel, material and cultural ways, is it possible to uncover new directions in understanding, framing and tackling the modern phenomena of, for instance, food deserts, obesity, nutritional poverty and social injustice. Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain engages with a variety of disciplines, including, law, economics, management, marketing, retailing, politics, sociology, psychology, diet and nutrition, consumer behaviour, environmental studies and geography. It will be of interest to both practitioners and academics, including postgraduate students, social scientists and policy-makers.
Introduction: Why do companies exist?
Chapter 1: Feasting Cavemen and
Responsible Giants 1.1The eternal modern feast of supermarkets 1.2 The growth
of the supermarkets 1.3 Food hedonism 1.4 The growing obesity epidemic 1.5
The multiple dimensions of economies of scale in supermarkets 1.6 What is
CSR? 1.7 Provisions as a Fourth Bottom Line; why we need enhanced
supermarket CSR 1.8 Is anything wrong with supermarket corporate social
responsibility? 1.9 The need for more accountable, comparable and long-term
CSR 1.10 The need for other actors in the realm of supermarket corporate
social responsibility
Chapter 2: Food justice as social justice: towards a
new regulatory framework in support of a basic human right to healthy food
2.1 The need for regulatory reform to address food injustice 2.2 Hungry for
justice: the right to nutritional food and a healthy diet 2.3 Social
stratification, poverty and the unequal burden of family health and nutrition
2.4 A Rawlsian approach to alleviating food poverty as a fundamental
principle of social justice 2.5 The reciprocal influence of egalitarian
institutions as a basic requirement of social justice 2.6 Between theory and
reality: from moral law to soft law solutions 2.7 The potential and limits of
corporate social responsibility 2.8 Beyond CSR, soft law and traditional
regulatory models 2.9 Proximity via Levinas and the law of tort: social
responsibility begins in the neighbourhood 2.10 Can there ever be a human
right to healthy food?
Chapter 3 Food Retailing, Society and the Economy 3.1
From laissez-faire to planning regulations 3.2 Behemoths versus Boroughs 3.3
Supermarket land banks 3.4. Other supermarket planning issues/part contents
Hillary J. Shaw is Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research spans sustainable economic development, corporate social responsibility, and the integration of global and local food systems. He is the author of many journal articles, essays, reviews, reports and books, including The Consuming Geographies of Food: Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity (Routledge, 2014).
Julia J.A. Shaw is Professor of Law and Social Justice in the School of Law at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research is interdisciplinary, and publications include Jurisprudence (3rd edition, Pearson 2018) and Law and the Passions: A Discrete History (Routledge, 2019).
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