Latin America's coffee market continues in economic crisis. Sustainable coffee production and certification is one … explores four viable certification processes (Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and Utz Kapeh) by first defining their …

and retail stores. Examining nearly 370,000 inventory records from 37 stores of one retailer, we find 65% to be inaccurate …

The growing retail desire for exclusive and specialized food products offers new marketing opportunities for small and … retail landscape and identifies some of the characteristics associated with successful food retailing. It is designed to help … their unique products. This publication addresses two major trends changing retail food marketing—a move toward …

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 …