The sequence of activities involved in the production and distribution of a commodity.
Commodity chain analysis, emerging from 1980s–90s economics, typically mapped firms and trade but deprioritized gendered labor divisions—women's hand-labor and assembly work in agrifood chains were treated as 'unskilled' and 'cheap' rather than systematically analyzed.
Use 'commodity chain' with explicit gender disaggregation of labor at each node: who works, at what wage, under what conditions, and who captures profit.
Women represent the majority of food processors and laborers in commodity chains globally; their labor, skill, and organizing power are foundations of system stability and resilience.
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