Voluntary Certification Design Choices Influence Producer Participation, Stakeholder Acceptance, and Environmental Sustainability in Commodity Agriculture Sectors in Tropical Forest Landscapes
| Autor: | Melisa Ongun, Ben Chen, Peter Newton, Chanisa Niljinda, Helena Alves-Pinto, Hsuan-Wen Kuo, Stefani Daryanto, Paul Winters |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Civil society
Food security Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Natural resource economics business.industry Geography Planning and Development Commodity Stakeholder Forestry Certification Management Monitoring Policy and Law Agricultural economics Agriculture Sustainability Sustainable agriculture Business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 34:581-604 |
| ISSN: | 1540-756X 1054-9811 |
| Popis: | Voluntary certification programs are one type of intervention used to incentivize the agricultural commodity sector in tropical landscapes to reduce deforestation and improve sustainability. Cases of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) voluntary certification program in Indonesia and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), voluntary certification for cattle in Brazil, are used to contrast the role taken in two significantly different programs to render sustainability outcomes. While producers in both countries follow a similar path toward compliance with certification standards, only the RSPO program offers enticements for producers to participate in the intermediate stages of compliance by offering membership in its affiliated industry roundtable. Design choices about the core activities of a program (adoption, implementation, and enforcement and monitoring) that are ancillary to standards setting are found to be opportunities for providing benefits to both producers and civil society stakeh... |
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