The Standardization of Sustainable Development Through the Insertion of Agricultural Global Value Chains into International Markets
| Autor: | Marcel Djama, Emmanuelle Cheyns, Eve Fouilleux, Stéphane Guéneau, Benoit Daviron |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs (UMR MOISA), Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés (LISIS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Gustave Eiffel, Bienabé E., Loeillet D., Rival A., Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro)-Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Value (ethics)
D50 - Législation certification Organisation non gouvernementale Agriculture intensive Public debate 010501 environmental sciences External Cost Norme 01 natural sciences E14 - Économie et politique du développement Biomasse 11. Sustainability Elaeis guineensis 2. Zero hunger Environnement socioéconomique Commerce international 05 social sciences Secteur agricole E71 - Commerce international Economy Entreprise publique P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières 050703 geography Global value chain Plantations 0507 social and economic geography Normalisation Entreprise privée 12. Responsible consumption Market economy Natural Rubber Political science Product (category theory) Durabilité 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Industrial Agriculture Sustainable development Government A01 - Agriculture - Considérations générales Marché mondial Impact sur l'environnement Évaluation de l'impact Étude de cas Agricultural Commodity Déboisement [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science K10 - Production forestière Développement durable 13. Climate action Corporate behaviour Utilisation Sustainability Forest Stewardship Council |
| Zdroj: | Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains Bienabé E., Loeillet D., Rival A. Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains, Springer Netherlands, pp.283-303, 2017, 978-94-024-1016-7. ⟨10.1007/978-94-024-1016-7_23⟩ Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains ISBN: 9789402410150 Sustainable development and tropical agri-chains |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-94-024-1016-7_23⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Mechanisms to standardize sustainable agricultural practices first emerged in the early 2000s with the goal of establishing responsible rules of corporate behaviour. Based on voluntary commitments by firms, these mechanisms are usually structured around a particular agricultural product and bring together the global value chain’s various actors (producers, buyers, processors, retailers), as well as NGOs, banks, and sometimes governments, to define and monitor sustainable production practices. They aim to regulate the environmental and social impacts of agriculture, especially large-scale industrial agriculture. And yet, some authors have noted the difficulty of ‘internalizing’ the negative effects and costs that international trade makes invisible, due to a ‘distance’ effect. By basing itself on the work of Thomas Princen (1997), this chapter explores the ability of standardization mechanisms to make visible again the effects that are ‘obscured’ by distance and the strategic action of firms and governments. Distance is understood here in terms of different dimensions: geographical, but also (and particularly) pertaining to contractual asymmetries; a limited cognitive ability of interpretation in an exchange between ‘foreign’ people and places; or a large number of intermediaries. From an empirical analysis of standardization mechanisms and a literature review, we show that sustainability standards have brushed aside part of the social and environmental criticism raised in a wider public debate, much like they exclude certain concerns raised by the affected people themselves. Characterized as a form of ‘government by the stakeholders’, such mechanisms in fact lead to the depoliticization of the debate and therefore to the exclusion of certain political perspectives and expressions of the common good. Moreover, they deliberately ignore some relationships that people have with their environment, thus making invisible part of the damage. Thus, these sustainability standards simply do not take some of negative impacts of the exports of biomass by industrial agriculture into account. These mechanisms have so far excluded or dismissed the constructions of sustainability whose aim was precisely to reduce the various dimensions of distance. |
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