Standards as a new form of social contract? Sustainability initiatives in the coffee industry

By D. Giovannucci, S. Ponte. 2005

450 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Chris Bacon
2. T. Reardon
3. M. Wollni
4. S. Henson
5. S. Ponte
6. J. Berdegué
7. M. Qaim
8. D. Murray

In Plant Science

1. Chris Bacon
2. J. Neilson
3. T. Reardon
4. M. Wollni
5. Laura T. Raynolds
6. S. Ponte
7. D. Murray
8. S. Henson

In Strategy and Management

1. Chris Bacon
2. J. Neilson
3. Laura T. Raynolds
4. S. Ponte
5. T. Reardon
6. D. Murray
7. M. Wollni
8. Eric F. Lambin

Citations in the corpus

• Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives (2007, background): “A few studies analyze certified coffee markets (Giovannucci, 2001; Giovannucci and Koekoek, 2003) or the role of certification within the overall coffee commodity chain (Daviron and Ponte, 2005; Giovannucci and Ponte, 2005; Renard, 2005; Talbot, 2004).”
• Global Private Regulation and Value-Chain Restructuring in Indonesian Smallholder Coffee Systems (2008, background): “Giovannucci and Ponte (2005) have questioned whether sustainability standards in the coffee sector are likely to benefit developing country actors due to insuffi-”
• ‘Black Economic Empowerment’, Business and the State in South Africa (2007, background): “…transfer of social and environmental concerns from public regulation to self-regulation, including private or semi-private certification and labelling schemes (see, among many others, Blowfield and Frynas, 2005; Giovannucci and Ponte, 2005; Graham and Woods, 2006; Ponte and Gibbon, 2005).”
• How much more do growers receive for Fair Trade-organic coffee? (2011, background): “In 2005, Giovannucci and Villalobos (2007) surveyed 40 U.S. organic coffee importers accounting for 90% of organic coffee supplied to the U.S.”
• Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes (2013, background): “Authors are more hopeful about the ability of standards to help farmers upgrade (Giovannucci & Ponte, 2005; Muradian & Pelupessy, 2005) and on the opportunities to establish new partnerships (Petkova, 2006), although evidence in both areas is scant.”
• Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption: Evidence from Honduras (2014, background): “Open access under CC BY-NC-SA lice addition, if farmers gain access to organic markets, they can potentially benefit frompremiumprices paid for organic produce (Giovannucci and Ponte, 2005).”
• The Evidence Base for Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of “Sustainable” Certification (2010, unknown): “According to proponents, sustainable certification initiatives like these create incentives for farms and firms to improve their environmental and socioeconomic performance (Giovannucci and Ponte 2005; Rice and Ward 1996).”
• Building Value at the Top and the Bottom of the Global Supply Chain: MNC-NGO Partnerships (2008, background): “The benefits of switching to certified sustainable production (namely, a price premium, access to a differentiated market, and possibly better buyer relations) are offset by the costs (switching production methods, more inputs, possible reductions in yields, and the initial and ongoing price of cert”