IBON International's framework of people-powered sustainable consumption and production (PP-SCP) recommends that every link of the commodity chain be guided by a recognition of peoples’ rights.

Because threats to sustainable development practices are experienced collectively, an understanding of human rights as bearing only on isolated entities – whether individual or corporate – fails to protect against the most pressing social problems the world currently faces. The need for governments to respect, promote, and ensure the collective rights of peoples is especially dire in the context of struggles for development in the global South.

This book includes three studies from the Philippines, Chile, and Ecuador, all detailing the need for people-powered development and efforts to implement principles of PP-SCP. Each case study also focuses on offering community-based supplemental proposals and, in some instances, correctives to prevalent development paradigms, including that of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).