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Do voluntary sustainability standards increase countries' access to cocoa export markets?

Grassnick, Nina; Brümmer, Bernhard - 2021

Large chocolate manufacturers have committed themselves to only using certifiedcocoa beans and some governments want to increase the share of certified cocoaproducts consumed in their countries. Thus, Voluntary Sustainability Standards(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and...

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Risks and opportunities from key importers pushing for sustainability : the case of Indonesian palm oil

Jafari, Yaghoob; Othman, Jamal; Witzke, Peter; Jusoh, Sufian - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 5 (2017) 13, pp. 1-16

Growing concerns in the major importing countries on the socio-environmental sustainability of oil palm farming may affect the import demand of palm oil and hence the economy of the exporting countries. This paper develops a comparative static, partial equilibrium model to examine the impact of...

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …

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International trade in the CFS voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition : a missed opportunity?

Alabrese, Mariagrazia; Coli, Francesca - In: Journal of world trade : law, economic policy, public policy 56 (2022) 4, pp. 693-712

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How the GATT agreement on agriculture shifted pollution from its richer to poorer members : implications for sustainability mandates of trade agreements

Anguelov, Nikolay; Ash, William - In: World development sustainability 4 (2024), pp. 1-13

This paper evaluates the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade's Agreement on Agriculture (GATT AA) on outcomes outlined as its sustainability goals. They include adopting and sustaining agricultural practices to lower fertilizer pollution from nitrogen and phosphate, as well as...

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