Constructing sustainable palm oil: how actors define sustainability

Boons, Frank; Mendoza, Angélica

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.07.003

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“…Nevertheless, one study looking at the effectiveness of value chain interventions in terms of their impacts on gender highlighted the scarcity of such studies and widened its scope to also include interventions that did not target gender 2 Particularly within economic sociology, economic geography and development studies, (Bair, 2005, Bair 2009, Boons and Mendoza 2010 specifically . Looking at studies on Kenyan women workers, with the notable exception of Dolan (2001Dolan ( , 2002 and also Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) (2012), analysis concentrates within the workplace rather than household dynamics and how participation within GVCs interacts with this.…”

Section: Bringing Empowerment Into Global Value Chain Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways to empowerment?: dynamics of women's participation in Global Value Chains

Said-Allsopp

Tallontire

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Gender plays an important role in shaping the outcomes of participation within Global Value Chains (GVCs). Employment in GVCs may have potential to empower women, but little is known about the dynamics by which GVCs bring about empowerment, rather studies highlight abuse of women's rights and on-going gender-based discrimination. This paper considers whether and how employment within GVCs empowers women workers. By drawing from an in-depth empirical study of women workers employed in the Kenyan tea and cut-flower industries, it develops three interlinked pathways to empowerment through employment in GVCs. These pathways based on 'being', 'doing' and 'sharing' offer some positive changes from the women workers' perspectives. In so doing, we offer a more nuanced perspective on employment for women in GVCs in African agriculture, acknowledging the constraints but also noting the potential for positive outcomes.

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Section: Bringing Empowerment Into Global Value Chain Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways to empowerment?: dynamics of women's participation in Global Value Chains

Said-Allsopp

Tallontire

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…This requires careful consideration of the value positions behind actions, as well as the way in which collective arrangements (organized by private actors, governments, and/or NGOs) are sensitive to such differences. The work on commodity chains has revealed how dependencies give unequal room for actors in different parts of the product chain; as a consequence, definitions of sustainability are affected by the dynamics generated by asymmetric dependencies (Boons and Mendoza, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Alternatively, a standard may be a collective initiative from the start. Such arrangements are difficult to bring about, given the multiplicity of interests and definitions of sustainability that actors bring to the table (Boons and Mendoza, 2010).…”

Section: Governance Studiesmentioning

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Conceptualizing sustainable development and global supply chains

Boons

Baumann

Hall

2012

Ecological Economics

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This paper introduces a holistic approach to the study of sustainable development of global product chains. We first present a number of perspectives on this topic from disciplines such as economic geography, management science, sociology and environmental sciences. Each of these approaches brings in a specific focus: the consequences of geographical dispersion of economic activities, measurement of ecological and social impact, managing sustainability in supply chains, and power asymmetry among economic actors. Until now, these disciplinary research lines have remained unconnected. We argue that ecological economics provides a promising background for a more holistic conceptualization. To this end, we formulate five basic questions that serve to advance the study of sustainability throughout the product chain by connecting the foci of the identified scientific disciplines. The aim of advancing a holistic perspective has guided the selection of papers for this special subsection, which are introduced throughout the text.

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“…Recent studies on agricultural commodity roundtables provide some insights into the processes by which supply chain actors collaborate with NGOs to create a shared understanding of sustainability, the environmental and social externalities and spillovers of agriculture (Boons and Mendoza 2010). These multistakeholder initiatives have been evaluated on their ability to establish legitimacy, accountability, democratic capability, and problem-solving capacities (Bäckstrand 2006, Fuchs et al 2011, Mena and Palazzo 2012.…”

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Transforming governance in telecoupled food systems

Eakin¹,

Rueda²,

Mahanti³

2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. In this paper we analyze how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus on how the boundaries of food systems are redefined and new institutions are developed through the explicit recognition of distal interactions and feedbacks-telecoupling-operating in the food system space. Telecoupling can stimulate new forms of governance, such as the development of codes of conduct and certification schemes, with positive impacts on food and livelihood security; when ignored, telecouplings can exacerbate undesirable social and ecological outcomes in linked systems. We present a typology of telecoupled food systems, highlighting three dimensions of distance that can be present in systems that become telecoupled: social, institutional, and physical. We use that typology to explore the evolution of telecoupling and governance change in two case studies. We associate the tendency for changes in governance that occur in each case with the nature of "distance" in the systems in question: whether the systems are distal in terms of social and/or institutional ties, or in the resource base, or some combination of all three dimensions of distance. The challenge of overcoming distance is not the only issue that affects the possibility of governance change; the cases illustrate that the cultural and economic conditions of the connected systems, the agency of actors involved, and their political and social relations and networks all come to play in enabling governance transformation in telecoupled systems.

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Constructing sustainable palm oil: how actors define sustainability

Cited by 87 publications

References 23 publications

Pathways to empowerment?: dynamics of women's participation in Global Value Chains

Pathways to empowerment?: dynamics of women's participation in Global Value Chains

Conceptualizing sustainable development and global supply chains

Transforming governance in telecoupled food systems

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