Labour, Migration and Natural Wine: Social Sustainability in the Green Transition of Production and Trade

Nature is back in the wine glass. The growing popularity of natural wine exemplifies a recent shift in the agricultural industry, replacing industrialized methods with ecological and manual means of production. This interdisciplinary project examines the link between labour, migration, and sustainability through a series of three seminars with natural wine as an exemplary case. By bridging scholars of social science and humanities, as well as practitioners of the natural wine industry, the seminars will provide an avenue for exploring the economic, social, and cultural consequences of a product that is hailed as highly environmentally sustainable. The seminars are organised into themes addressing how the efforts of the green transition align and/or conflict with social sustainability and labour migration, contributing with knowledge on how the green transition re-arranges the agricultural industry.