Key words: transition, transformation, governance, barriers
Objective
Western food systems are highly productive but also face substantial sustainability challenges, including ongoing biodiversity loss, climate change, and diet-related diseases (El Bilali et al., 2021; Fanzo et al., 2021). These sustainability challenges find their origin in a series of connectivity problems, such as...
Introduction
Rural development remains crucial to enhancing welfare and eradicating poverty, yet, numerous obstacles, such as climate change and market failures, hinder the achievement of these goals globally, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Shimeles et al. 2018). Hence, strategies that enable farmers to strengthen their resilience, including those related to disseminating...
Keywords: Voluntary sustainability standards, Private standards, Fairtrade, Organic, GlobalGAP
Introduction
The agri-food system faces numerous sustainability challenges, necessitating urgent transformation (Diaz-Bonilla et al., 2023). Amidst increasing price uncertainty, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and geopolitical instability, addressing these issues becomes...
KEYWORDS: Voluntary Sustainability Standards; Institutional context; Producer welfare; Cocoa; Indonesia
Introduction
Although voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) promise to deliver improved sustainability outcomes, recent review studies (1-3) reveal that socio-economic outcomes of VSS are ambiguous and that contextual factors are key in determining the sustainability impacts of...
