We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade … protectionism, a complicate task. We look at studies investigating public and private standards and across various quantitative … approaches and countries. These standards have complex effects. The evidence is mixed regarding standards as catalyst for or …

meta-governance in the governance of sustainability standards in agriculture. It shows how meta-governance efforts are … sustainable. It therefore reveals the mechanism through which meta-governance of coordination problems among cross-border self …-organizing governance arrangements may end up reproducing these coordination problems, rather than addressing them …

this represents what many would consider a 'worst-case scenario? Stringent rich country standards are imposed on exports …

intelligence, might shake up the lives of individuals as well as governance frameworks at global and national levels. The rules of … that China had been gradually expanding its own systems of public participation and local governance with Chinese cultural …

. Specifically, global governance and law with borderless globalization are to blame for the inability to find appropriate solutions …