Global commodity networks, ethical trade and governmentality: organizing business responsibility in the Kenyan cut flower industry

By A. Hughes. 2001

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Environmental Certification of Forests in Mexico: The Political Ecology of a Nongovernmental Market Intervention (2006, background): “…Teisl, Roe, and Hicks 2002), regional designations for wine, cheese, olive oil, and other agricultural products (Marsden 2000; Gade 2004; Sanz Cañada and Macı́as Vázquez 2005), and ethical codes of conduct for food and flower production (Barrientos 2000; Hughes 2001; Freidberg 2003a, 2003b).”
Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks (2002, background): “Like other certification and labeling systems (Gereffi et al. 2001; Hughes 2001 ), Fair Trade certification reflects North / South power relations and industrial monitoring practices.”
Cleaning up down South: Supermarkets, ethical trade and African horticulture (2003, background): “Ethical trade is a more generic term that first gained currency in mid-1990s’ discussions of corporate responsibility along with terms like ‘sound’ and ‘socially responsible’ sourcing (Blowfield 1999; Browne et al. 2000; Du Toit 2001; Hughes 2001a, 2001b).”
Fair trade coffee: building producer capacity via global networks (2004, background): “Fair Trade, like environmental certification in organic, forest and marine products and labor standard certification in apparel, footwear, textiles and flowers, involves the implementation of voluntary global production standards (see Barrientos, 2000; Blowfield, 1999; Gereffi et al., 2001; Hughes,”
Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities (2011, unknown): “…elites, and firms to produce knowledge, fields of intervention, and governable objects/subjects (e.g., consumers, workers, investors, traders, development experts, urban futures) (Hughes, 2001; Larner, 2002; Murdoch, 2004; Bulkeley, 2006; Rose-Redwood, 2006; Langley, 2006; Larner and Laurie, 2009).”
Governing the coffee chain: The role of voluntary regulatory Systems (2005, background): “This imposition of strategies, codes, and auditing methods designed by agencies in the industrialized world has been identified as one of the main challenges facing voluntary regulatory schemes (Hughes, 2001).”
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks (2004, background): “These conclusions appear to apply also to proliferating certification systems in the international trade of marine products, timber, flowers, apparel, footwear, textiles, and other items (Barrientos, 2000; Gereffi, Garcia-Johnson, & Sasser, 2001; Hughes, 2001).”
Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives (2007, background): “…mandated, regulatory arrangements have proliferated in the manufacturing sector, particularly in apparel and footwear (Gereffi et al., 2001) and in the agricultural and natural resource sector, particularly in timber, flowers, and food products (Cashore et al., 2004; Hughes, 2001; Raynolds, 2004).”
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to Traceability (2009, background): “Shifting to a reflexive view of governance, or governmentality, a set of studies highlight the rationalities and techniques through which network actors govern themselves and others (Blowfield & Dolan, 2008; Gibbon & Ponte, 2008; Hughes, 2001).”