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

With the proliferation of private standards many significant decisions regarding public health risks, food safety, and … grounded in political economy, we explain the rise of private standards and specific actors – notably supermarkets – in the …-Retailer Produce Working Group (EUREP) is presented as a case of private governance by transnational supermarket chains. We conclude by …

efforts, today such efforts have largely shifted to Tripartite Standards Regimes (TSRs). Using a case study of the Leonardo … Academy’s initiative to develop a US sustainable agriculture standard, this paper examines the standards-development process …-development process. We contend that although governance mechanisms are a potentially powerful tool for advocates of alternative agrifood …

impinged on virtually every aspect of food and agriculture. Moreover, most nation-states and many international governance … bodies incorporate aspects of neoliberal perspectives. Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), with their own standards …