Claudia Coral
Biographic Data
| ID | 1572006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Coral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Coral |
| SIGNATURE | CORAL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7802-3171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Linking ecosystem services and living income
This study introduces a conceptual framework that links the concept of Living Income (LI) to Ecosystem Services (ESS), focusing on Côte d'Ivoire as the world's leading cocoa producer. LI is a concept and poverty benchmark incorporating several well-being dimensions to guarantee decent living conditions for farming households. LI is widely applied to agrifood commodities but lacks explicit consideration of the contribution of ESS to smallholder fa…
Power from below
Subordinate inclusion is integral to global value chains (GVCs), underpinning broader dynamics of uneven development. This paper presents a theoretically grounded conceptual framework to examine how small-scale farmers in the global south navigate and challenge subordinate inclusion through power from below. It synthesizes insights from the literatures on power in GVCs, the power resources approach, and critical agrarian studies to recast GVCs as…
Shifting the narrative
Despite extensive scholarship on gender inequality in West African cocoa production, women's land and labour constraints are often treated as static outcomes rather than dynamic relational processes. This study draws on narrative analysis to examine the everyday experiences of Ivorian women cocoa producers, with particular attention to how access to land and the organisation of labour are co-constituted in practice. Women's participation in the c…
Integrating social vulnerability into food fraud vulnerability assessment
Elongating the causes of social vulnerability
Knowledge and methodological gaps exist concerning less tangible social sustainability dimensions that unfold over time in complex ways. • Structural factors that increase vulnerability in the Ivorian cocoa sector are not yet addressed by policymakers and value chain actors. • Cocoa producers are highly vulnerable to price shocks and production-related risks, ultimately unable to achieve a decent standard of living. • Social sustainability is com…
Extractivism triggering new forms of governance for the rights of nature
New forms of extractivism raise new forms of governance through resistance. • Extractivism triggers socio-organizational processes. • Actions by organized communities to invoke the RoN through legal litigation are yielding fruits. • Local governments and communities’ governance efforts are stymied by institutional gaps and mismatches. • Need to conceptualise governance processes grounded in local communities’ struggles. The intensification of res…
Enabling spaces for bridging scales
To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…
The backbone of agrifood value chain resilience
Given the accelerated global shifts and disruptions to agrifood value chains, an approach is required that reveals multiple drivers, recognizable patterns, and behaviors that can be understood and navigated towards value chain resilience. This research shares roots with and builds further on resilience approaches, the concept of upgrading in global value chains and innovation to contribute to the study of agrifood value chain resilience. The anal…
Contemporary narratives about asymmetries in responsibility in global agri-food value chains
Global concerns over environmental and social issues in agrifood value chains have increased and are reflected in a number of voluntary sustainability standards and regulatory initiatives. However, these initiatives are often based on poor knowledge of production realities, creating a disconnect between producing and consuming countries. Through narrative analysis, this paper reveals asymmetries in the responsibilities of the various actors parti…
Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use
Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following techniques and procedures for developing groun…
Social-ecological traps hinder rural development in southwestern Madagascar
Hänke, H., J. Barkmann, C. Coral, E. Enfors Kaustky, and R. Marggraf. 2017. Social-ecological traps hinder rural development in southwestern Madagascar. Ecology and Society 22(1):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09130-220142
Extractivism triggering new forms of governance for the rights of nature
New forms of extractivism raise new forms of governance through resistance. • Extractivism triggers socio-organizational processes. • Actions by organized communities to invoke the RoN through legal litigation are yielding fruits. • Local governments and communities’ governance efforts are stymied by institutional gaps and mismatches. • Need to conceptualise governance processes grounded in local communities’ struggles. The intensification of res…
Social-ecological traps hinder rural development in southwestern Madagascar
Hänke, H., J. Barkmann, C. Coral, E. Enfors Kaustky, and R. Marggraf. 2017. Social-ecological traps hinder rural development in southwestern Madagascar. Ecology and Society 22(1):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09130-220142
Contemporary narratives about asymmetries in responsibility in global agri-food value chains
Global concerns over environmental and social issues in agrifood value chains have increased and are reflected in a number of voluntary sustainability standards and regulatory initiatives. However, these initiatives are often based on poor knowledge of production realities, creating a disconnect between producing and consuming countries. Through narrative analysis, this paper reveals asymmetries in the responsibilities of the various actors parti…
Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use
Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following techniques and procedures for developing groun…
Elongating the causes of social vulnerability
Knowledge and methodological gaps exist concerning less tangible social sustainability dimensions that unfold over time in complex ways. • Structural factors that increase vulnerability in the Ivorian cocoa sector are not yet addressed by policymakers and value chain actors. • Cocoa producers are highly vulnerable to price shocks and production-related risks, ultimately unable to achieve a decent standard of living. • Social sustainability is com…
Enabling spaces for bridging scales
To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…
The backbone of agrifood value chain resilience
Given the accelerated global shifts and disruptions to agrifood value chains, an approach is required that reveals multiple drivers, recognizable patterns, and behaviors that can be understood and navigated towards value chain resilience. This research shares roots with and builds further on resilience approaches, the concept of upgrading in global value chains and innovation to contribute to the study of agrifood value chain resilience. The anal…
Social-ecological traps hinder rural development in southwestern Madagascar
Hänke, H., J. Barkmann, C. Coral, E. Enfors Kaustky, and R. Marggraf. 2017. Social-ecological traps hinder rural development in southwestern Madagascar. Ecology and Society 22(1):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09130-220142
Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use
Ecuador constitutes a fascinating case study to explore land policies and reforms. Since colonial times, it has experienced prolonged and ongoing struggles to transform land institutions. This paper investigates how, across levels, historic institutional factors affected land-use decision making in the Mindo parish and western foothills of Pichincha, Ecuador, as perceived by its landowners. Following techniques and procedures for developing groun…
The backbone of agrifood value chain resilience
Given the accelerated global shifts and disruptions to agrifood value chains, an approach is required that reveals multiple drivers, recognizable patterns, and behaviors that can be understood and navigated towards value chain resilience. This research shares roots with and builds further on resilience approaches, the concept of upgrading in global value chains and innovation to contribute to the study of agrifood value chain resilience. The anal…
Contemporary narratives about asymmetries in responsibility in global agri-food value chains
Global concerns over environmental and social issues in agrifood value chains have increased and are reflected in a number of voluntary sustainability standards and regulatory initiatives. However, these initiatives are often based on poor knowledge of production realities, creating a disconnect between producing and consuming countries. Through narrative analysis, this paper reveals asymmetries in the responsibilities of the various actors parti…
Enabling spaces for bridging scales
To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…
Elongating the causes of social vulnerability
Knowledge and methodological gaps exist concerning less tangible social sustainability dimensions that unfold over time in complex ways. • Structural factors that increase vulnerability in the Ivorian cocoa sector are not yet addressed by policymakers and value chain actors. • Cocoa producers are highly vulnerable to price shocks and production-related risks, ultimately unable to achieve a decent standard of living. • Social sustainability is com…
Extractivism triggering new forms of governance for the rights of nature
New forms of extractivism raise new forms of governance through resistance. • Extractivism triggers socio-organizational processes. • Actions by organized communities to invoke the RoN through legal litigation are yielding fruits. • Local governments and communities’ governance efforts are stymied by institutional gaps and mismatches. • Need to conceptualise governance processes grounded in local communities’ struggles. The intensification of res…
Integrating social vulnerability into food fraud vulnerability assessment
Linking ecosystem services and living income
This study introduces a conceptual framework that links the concept of Living Income (LI) to Ecosystem Services (ESS), focusing on Côte d'Ivoire as the world's leading cocoa producer. LI is a concept and poverty benchmark incorporating several well-being dimensions to guarantee decent living conditions for farming households. LI is widely applied to agrifood commodities but lacks explicit consideration of the contribution of ESS to smallholder fa…
Power from below
Subordinate inclusion is integral to global value chains (GVCs), underpinning broader dynamics of uneven development. This paper presents a theoretically grounded conceptual framework to examine how small-scale farmers in the global south navigate and challenge subordinate inclusion through power from below. It synthesizes insights from the literatures on power in GVCs, the power resources approach, and critical agrarian studies to recast GVCs as…
Shifting the narrative
Despite extensive scholarship on gender inequality in West African cocoa production, women's land and labour constraints are often treated as static outcomes rather than dynamic relational processes. This study draws on narrative analysis to examine the everyday experiences of Ivorian women cocoa producers, with particular attention to how access to land and the organisation of labour are co-constituted in practice. Women's participation in the c…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (3 works) · Global value chain (3 works)