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The effectiveness of private food governance for sustainability

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Fuchs, Doris; Kalfagianni, Agni

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Corporate Editor Universität Münster, FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Abstract "This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of private food governance in addressing the environmental challenges facing the global food system, today. Greenhouse gas emissions, decline of biodiversity, water pollution, pesticide use and the generation of waster are considered the new agrarian questions of this century. Crucially, the governance of such environmental strains is a rapidly emerging issue for private actors, who have become key players in global food governance. Yet, few studies have tried to understand the actual impact of private rulesetting, in general, and retail governance, in particular, in detail. Drawing on global governance literature and organisational theory, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of private food governance institutions for sustainability, in terms of their comprehensiveness, stringency, compliance and coverage. Next to this quite narrow understanding of effectiveness the paper also identifies the broader political and soci-economic influence of private food governance in terms of structural, cognitive and normative effects. The paper illustrates its arguments in two cases, namely GlobalGAP and the Marine Stewardship Council. As such, the paper advances our theoretical knowledge on private rule-setting institutions and contributes empirically to political science research by making available new data on a currently understudied case of private governance." [author's abstract]
Keywords sustainable development; food; global player; ecological consequences; environmental pollution; effectiveness; environmental compatibility; organizations; socioeconomic effects; governance
Classification Ecology, Environment
Method documentation
Document language English
Publication Year 2010
City Münster
Page/Pages 27 p.
Licence Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
Document Type working paper
data provider This metadata entry was indexed by the Special Subject Collection Social Sciences, USB Cologne
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