262 KB0 KB202120252025Dube, ThulaniJaravaza, Divaries CosmasMukucha, Paulletnik:16številka:issue 1str. 1-14DOI:10.2478/jlst-2025-0001COBISSID_HOST:253465603ISSN:2784-7497URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-Y12YE311enDe Gruyter PolandFakulteta za logistikoLogistics, supply chain, sustainability and global challengesdeontologijaetika nabaveinformation and communication technologykontaktno kmetovanjerazvoj dobaviteljevSMEs and material requirement planningsupply chain efficiencySupply chain integrity| addressing ethical concerns in agricultural supply chains|Ethics has become a trending phenomenon in most disciplines as a result of the sustainability wave enshrined in the United Nations Sustainability Goals (SDGs). In business circles procurement ethics have become topical as a result of the rising malpractices whose ripple effects have far reaching economic, social and environmental consequences. In the agricultural supply chains procurement ethics have been called to question due to outcries from the tobacco contract farmers whose livelihoods are affected by supplier development washing in the form of exorbitantly priced contract farming inputs. The unethical practice of supplier development washing in the form of exorbitantly priced tobacco contract farming inputs has some ripple effects which this study sought to determine. Twenty-five contracted tobacco farmers were interviewed and the results indicated that farmers subjected to tobacco merchants’ unethical conduct tend to practice contractor switching, side marketing, become insolvent, and indulge in unorthodox cost cutting measures. The study recommended that the regulatory authorities should intervene to bring sanity to the tobacco supply chains through enforcing contract farming mechanisms that reflect genuine supplier developmentEtika je postala trendovski pojav v večini disciplin zaradi vala trajnosti, ki je zapisan v trajnostnih ciljih Združenih narodov (SDG). V poslovnih krogih je etika javnega naročanja postala aktualna zaradi vse pogostejših zlorab, ki imajo daljnosežne gospodarske, družbene in okoljske posledice. V kmetijskih oskrbovalnih verigah je bila etika javnega naročanja postavljena pod vprašaj zaradi protestov pogodbenih pridelovalcev tobaka, katerih preživetje je bilo prizadeto zaradi dobaviteljev in previsokih cen vložkov za pogodbenega kmetovanja. Neetična praksa dobaviteljev v obliki pretirano dragih vložkov za pogodbeno kmetovanje s tobakom ima nekatere posledice, ki jih je poskušala ugotoviti ta študija. Intervjuvanih je bilo petindvajset pogodbenih pridelovalcev tobaka, rezultati pa so pokazali, da kmetje, ki so izpostavljeni neetičnemu ravnanju trgovcev s tobakom, pogosto menjavajo izvajalce, se poslužujejo stranskega trženja, postanejo plačilno nesposobni in se poslužujejo neobičajnih ukrepov za zmanjšanje stroškov. Študija je priporočila posredovanje regulativnih organov oskrbovalne verige tobaka in vnašanje razsodnosti z uveljavljanjem mehanizmov pogodbenega kmetovanja, ki odražajo dejanski razvoj dobaviteljevTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za logistiko