Certification and labeling initiatives that seek to enhance environmental and social sustainability are growing rapidly … – outlining and contrasting their governance structures, environmental and social standards, and market positions. We argue that … simply uphold current standards. The vulnerability of these initiatives to market pressures highlights the need for private …

embraced private standards, usually with some form of third party certification employed to verify adherence to those standards …

fair trade—focusing on corporate involvement in establishing and renegotiating the standards undergirding these initiatives …. We compare the development of and contestation over the standards for both certified organic and certified fair trade …

bodies incorporate aspects of neoliberal perspectives. Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), with their own standards …

A growing number of multi-stakeholder initiatives seek to improve labor and environmental standards through third …-party certification. Fairtrade, one of the most popular third-party certifications in the agro-food sector, is currently expanding its …, product standardization and certification and (2) alternative domestic and civic conventions, rooted in trust, personal ties …

. In response, the organization Local Food Plus (LFP) developed standards and a certification process to authenticate local … and sustainable claims. LFP provides certification seals, and labeling provisions for qualifying producers and processors …Interest in purchasing local food from suppliers who follow sustainable practices is growing in Canada. Such suppliers …

2005, Bonsucro is the principal MSI that focuses on sustainability standards for sugar and sugarcane ethanol production …. Bonsucro claims that because it is free from government interference and draws on scientific metrics, their standards transcend …

peer review, systems of certification and towards third party certification, in which a disinterested party is responsible … for the development of organic standards and the verification of producer compliance. This paper explores some of the … limitations of the third party certification model and presents the case of Mexico as an example of how an alternative form of …

addressing social and environmental problems, a growing number of certification systems have appeared in various sectors …, particularly agrifood. Most initiatives rely on independent third-party certification to verify compliance with a standard, as it … is seen as the most credible route for certification. The effects of third-party audits, however, still need to be …

to improve food safety by introducing public standards of good agricultural practices (GAP). Using quantitative farm …