retail firms. Yet the success of these alternatives also makes them an inviting target for corporate participation. This …

scholars and practitioners are raising serious questions about who benefits from certification. Through a critique of north … “global north” and “global south,” certification has normalized and naturalized dichotomous power relations. The primary … concern of this paper is to demonstrate the problems with situating certification and scholarship in the north–south binary …

-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 … certification on the ground as revealed through a case study of certified flower production in Ecuador. Copyright Springer Science …

This paper analyzes the possibilities and challenges of Fair Trade certification as a movement seeking to improve the …

Certification and labeling initiatives that seek to enhance environmental and social sustainability are growing rapidly …

In recent years, we have witnessed three parallel and intertwined trends: First, food retail and processing firms have … embraced private standards, usually with some form of third party certification employed to verify adherence to those standards …

. 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 …

peer review, systems of certification and towards third party certification, in which a disinterested party is responsible … limitations of the third party certification model and presents the case of Mexico as an example of how an alternative form of … participatory certification has emerged. The paper suggests that participatory guarantee systems (PGS) are reflective of the growing …