. We compare the development of and contestation over the standards for both certified organic and certified fair trade … between the organic and fair trade cases. Analyzing these two cases provides useful insights into the strategic approaches …

Much of the attention by social scientists to the rapidly growing organic agriculture sector focuses on the benefits it … provides to consumers (in the form of pesticide-free foods) and to farmers (in the form of price premiums). By contrast, there … has been little discussion or research about the implications of the boom in organic agriculture for farmworkers on …