Cleaning up down South: Supermarkets, ethical trade and African horticulture

By S. Freidberg. 2003

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Subfields: Anthropology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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The costs of compliance? Views of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers in times of global economic crisis (2011, background): “Claims have also been advanced that auditing practices mirror these global power imbalances, with neo-colonial and Western models of development appearing to largely determine auditing practices and content of corporate codes (Freidberg, 2003; Hughes, 2005).”
Who decides what is fair in fair trade? The agri-environmental governance of standards, access, and price (2010, background): “…approaches could limit the standards slide, scholars have demonstrated that these standards are frequently topdown regulations that do more to reconfigure local livelihoods and landscapes than contribute to social empowerment and biodiversity conservation (Barrientos et al. 2003, Freidberg 2003).”
Back to the Land: The Paradox of Organic Food Standards (2004, background): “Ethicality becomes a fetish itself in that the consumer is left simply to trust that the label speaks for itself (Freidberg, 2003a; Guthman, 2004).”
Fighting Standards with Standards: Harmonization, Rents, and Social Accountability in Certified Agrofood Networks (2005, background): “SASA prefers that standards be embedded in regulatory frameworks independent of networks whereas the SCP proposal, though less welldeveloped, has put forth a notion of private, contract-based voluntary standards along the lines of ethical supermarket labels (Freidberg, 2003b).”
Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives (2007, background): “While some suggest that certification represents little more than a new packaging model (Freidberg, 2003), others contend that these efforts have significant positive impacts (Taylor and Scharlin, 2004).”
Certified organic agriculture in Mexico: Market connections and certification practices in large and small producers (2005, background): “It is present in the North American case, and likely in the EU and other regions as well (Freidberg, 2003; Renard, 2005), although presentation of organic market growth in by-country averages makes this conjecture difficult to verify (see Willer and Yussefi, 2005, pp.”
Environmental Certification of Forests in Mexico: The Political Ecology of a Nongovernmental Market Intervention (2006, background): “In this sense, certification can be thought of as a means of changing the actions of southern producers in order to serve the interests and assuage the anxieties of northern consumers and retailers (Constance 2001; Mutersbaugh 2002; Freidberg 2003a).”
Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World (2007, background): “…and hygienic standards on producers that recent scholars have described as a `neocolonial civilising mission': ethical trade speaks to the growing food anxieties of affluent consumers and carries echoes of earlier colonial crusades for Christian cleanliness (Freidberg, 2003, page 35; Burke, 1996).”
Estimated daily intake of pesticide residues exposure by vegetables grown in greenhouses in Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia (2011, background): “When seeking to rationalisepesticideuse, bothgovernment (Council Directive, 1990) and supermarkets have tended to make the implicit assumption that any rationalisation is primarily an issue of decreasing the quantity of pesticides used, coupled with the banning of specific, highly toxic substances (”
Governing global value chains: an introduction (2008, background): “…capitalism is said to be striving not only to commodify new product qualities that arise in opposition to it, but also to commodify information about those products through the creation of systems to certify particular qualities, a trend that Freidberg (2003, 2004) terms ‘double fetishism’.”