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The Development of a Market for Sustainable Coffee in The Netherlands: Rethinking the Contribution of Fair Trade

Ingenbleek, Paul; Reinders, Machiel - In: Journal of Business Ethics 113 (2013) 3, pp. 461-474

In recent years, researchers have observed the process of mainstreaming Fair Trade and the emergence of alternative sustainability standards in the coffee industry. The underlying market dynamics that have contributed to these developments are, however, under-researched. Insight into these...

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Who is importing forest products from Africa to China? An analysis of implications for initiatives to enhance legality and sustainability

Huang, Wenbin; Wilkes, Andreas; Sun, Xiufang; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 2, pp. 339-354

sustainability certification. For African forest products, a shift in the export destinations of forest products towards China, the … domestic market for finished wood products, sustainability certification requirements driven by the US and EU will not be …

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The private governance of food: equitable exchange or bizarre bazaar?

Busch, Lawrence - In: Agriculture and Human Values 28 (2011) 3, pp. 345-352

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

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Standardized food governance? Reflections on the potential and limitations of chemical-free shrimp

Hatanaka, Maki - In: Food Policy 45 (2014) C, pp. 138-145

Multilayered conformity-assessment systems (MCASs) are becoming an increasingly prominent governance mechanism in food and agriculture. MCASs maintain their legitimacy through the use of scientific norms and practices, as well as multiple tiers of oversight. The purported outcome is standardized...

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Corporate cooptation of organic and fair trade standards

Jaffee, Daniel; Howard, Philip - In: Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2010) 4, pp. 387-399

Recent years have seen a substantial increase in alternative agrifood initiatives that attempt to use the market to curtail the negative social and environmental effects of production and trade in a globalized food system. These alternatives pose a challenge to capital accumulation and the...

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Governance in the age of global markets: challenges, limits, and consequences

Busch, Lawrence - In: Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2014) 3, pp. 513-523

We live in an age defined in large part by various facets of neoliberalism. In particular, the market world has impinged on virtually every aspect of food and agriculture. Moreover, most nation-states and many international governance bodies incorporate aspects of neoliberal perspectives....

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Fairtrade, certification, and labor: global and local tensions in improving conditions for agricultural workers

Raynolds, Laura - In: Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2014) 3, pp. 499-511

-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 …

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A Study on the Establishment of a System to Remove/Reduce Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) in Central and South America

Kim, Yong-Jae - In: Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) 16 (2018) 3, pp. 1-11

customs system, technical regulation, and standards through test & certification procedures and inspections. Second, this … Central & South America, the article focuses on SDOC, Mutual Acceptance of International tests & certification and the IEC CB …

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Is quality certification in fruit and vegetable production a market-driven choice in Greece?

Tselempis, Dimitrios; Karipidis, Philippos; Pavloudi, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 3 (2015), pp. 1-12

assurance scheme (QAS) were decided as responses by fruit and vegetable producers to market conditions, separating certification … implementation of QMS and binary probit for the choice of QAS. It is found that the buyers' demand for certification and the efforts … can lead to the diffusion of certification. Because the absence of information provision and the controls exerted by …

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Firm adoption of international standards : evidence from the Ethiopian floriculture sector

Gebreeyesus, Mulu - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 46 (2015), pp. 139-155

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