Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives
By Laura T. Raynolds, D. Murray, Andrew Heller. 2007
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Subfields: Business and International Management, Plant Science, Strategy and Management
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- Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products (2017, background): “Likewise, Raynolds, Murray, and Heller (2007) note that certification organizations are ‘‘generally characterized by their participatory structures” (149).”
- Shade Coffee: Update on a Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity (2014, background): “present, can be essential for coordinating collective action that can help smallholders manage the 278 distribution of benefits and retain land titles (Raynolds et al. 2007), potentially creating key 279 institutional environments for sustainable land stewardship.”
- Fair Trade organic coffee production in Nicaragua — Sustainable development or a poverty trap? (2009, background): “…Fair Trade aims to support democratically organized cooperatives of smallscale farmers in developing countries through payment of minimum prices, premiums for social development, improved labour rights and long-term trading relationships (Muradian and Pelupessy, 2005; Raynolds et al., 2007).”
- Global Private Regulation and Value-Chain Restructuring in Indonesian Smallholder Coffee Systems (2008, background): “The comparative ease of large plantation companies to gain Utz Kapeh certification vis-à-vis smallholders has reinforced the reputation of Utz Kapeh as being a corporatefriendly form of certification (Raynolds et al., 2007; Renard, 2005).”
- The Economic Sustainability of Certified Coffee: Recent Evidence from Mexico and Peru (2012, neutral): “…suggested by the distinctions between Fair Trade, organic, and Rainforest Alliance in this paper, the marketplace is becoming crowded with labels that claim to promote a social or environmental issue or “sustainability” in general (see Daviron & Ponte, 2005 and Raynolds et al., 2007 for overviews).”
- A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “Specialty coffee (e.g. organic, fair trade, and shade-grown coffee) accounts for approximately 9–12% of all coffee production (Raynolds et al. 2007; Van der Vossen 2005) of which Mexico, Central America, Columbia, and Peru are the market leaders (Lewin et al. 2004).”
- Mainstreaming Sustainable Coffee (2013, neutral): “Some standards may be raising the bar on social and environmental dimensions of coffee production, while others will be rather holding it (Raynolds et al., 2007) – with all still doing more than in the ‘conventional’ system (cf. Mohan, 2010).”
- Marking the success or end of global multi-stakeholder governance? The rise of national sustainability standards in Indonesia and Brazil for palm oil and soy (2014, background): “According to Smith and Fischlein (2010), rivalry between different inter-organizational forms of collaboration has little to do with the specific rules or standards proposed by a private governance network, as emphasized by other scholars showing that the market for standards in the coffee or cut fl”
- Corporate cooptation of organic and fair trade standards (2010, neutral): “This division was made in order to align the organization for ISO 65 certification (Raynolds et al. 2007: 19-20; Renard 2005: 425), which FLO-Cert eventually achieved in October 2007.”
- Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India* (2013, neutral): “There are three main results.”
- Impacts of Fair Trade certification on coffee farmers, cooperatives, and laborers in Nicaragua (2010, background): “…by product standards related to the cleanliness of the beans and the taste of the brewed coffee, nowadays the negotiations over coffee quality include an array of process standards related to the conditions under which coffee is produced and traded (Raynolds et al. 2004; Raynolds et al. 2007).”