Do eco-labels prevent deforestation? Lessons from non-state market driven governance in the soy, palm oil, and cocoa sectors

Ven, Hamish van der; Rothacker, Catherine; Cashore, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.07.002

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“…Landscape specificity has allowed CCLG to consider more creative policy instruments (beyond the usual and elusive rationale of premium prices) and be more tangible than conventional roundtables in changing realities on the ground. The Amazon Soy Moratorium has done more to reduce soydriven deforestation than existing certification schemes have (Gibbs et al, 2015;Van der Ven et al, 2018). Such a specificity has also allowed actors to interweave new instruments in the existing framework of public policies, promote policy coherence, and address particular (perceived) vulnerabilities of a landscape.…”

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Commodity-Centric Landscape Governance as a Double-Edged Sword: The Case of Soy and the Cerrado Working Group in Brazil

Lima

Persson

2020

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Commodity-Centric Landscape Governance as a Double-Edged Sword: The Case of Soy and the Cerrado Working Group in Brazil

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Persson

2020

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“…; Vander Ven et al. ) are dwarfed by fertilizer subsidies, credit subsidies, various crop‐price supports, and other farm‐income support programs, which are better funded than forest‐preservation programs in key countries, such as Indonesia and Brazil by over 100–1 (Kissinger et al. ; OECD ).…”

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“…; Van der Ven et al. ), and PES substantially protects some forests but often needs to better target the forests at higher risk of deforestation (e.g., Borner et al. ).…”

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“…Although certification efforts focus on Indonesia and Brazil, relatively few Indonesian or Brazilian farmers participate (Van der Ven et al. ). Indonesia's forest certification generally does not provide price incentives (Ruysschaert & Salles ) that significantly discourage deforestation, and participants largely deforested their plantations before agreeing to participate.…”

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Transforming farm‐program incentives to preserve tropical forests

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2019

Conservation Biology

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“…Current studies on oil palm certification are prevalent. Some focus on biodiversity conservation potential (Azhar et al 2015) or on deforestation elimination potential (Van der Ven et al 2018;Carlson et al 2018) while some on the effectiveness regarding social and environmental performance (Morgans et al 2018). The analysis of eco-friendly rubber is less frequent.…”

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Smallholder Telecoupling and Climate Governance in Jambi Province, Indonesia

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Current debates on climate change have led to an increased demand for sustainable commodities. Serving this demand, sustainability certification schemes and eco-friendly labels have become prominent mechanisms of climate governance. Smallholder farmers in Jambi province, Indonesia, producing palm oil and rubber as the two dominant smallholder crops, are impacted by this distal demand. Zimmerer et al. (2018) suggest analyzing the potential sustainability in such a context with the multilevel smallholder telecoupling framework. Applying this framework to case studies from Jambi province, our first case reveals that smallholder certification for so-called sustainable palm oil does not necessarily influence smallholder towards more sustainable management practices. One explanation might be a discrepancy in sustainability perception between sender and receiver systems. The second case is the setup of an allegedly eco-friendly rubber plantation. The establishment of this model plantation is implemented by a transnational corporation in collaboration with a nature conservation organization, impacting the access to land for adjacent smallholders. The struggle over access to land is not only negotiated between smallholders and the corporation producing “eco-friendly” rubber but also between smallholders and big land mammals lacking access to land since the rubber plantation began to be established. We argue that the concept of sustainability as demanded by the receiving system does not mirror management practices in the sending system, even though the products reach the Global North as supposedly socially and climate-friendly. The smallholder telecoupling framework is helpful for assessing potential sustainability but can be expanded towards conflictive spillovers, second order effects, and a mismatch in sustainability perceptions in order to draw a more comprehensive picture.

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Do eco-labels prevent deforestation? Lessons from non-state market driven governance in the soy, palm oil, and cocoa sectors

Cited by 96 publications

References 53 publications

Commodity-Centric Landscape Governance as a Double-Edged Sword: The Case of Soy and the Cerrado Working Group in Brazil

Commodity-Centric Landscape Governance as a Double-Edged Sword: The Case of Soy and the Cerrado Working Group in Brazil

Transforming farm‐program incentives to preserve tropical forests

Smallholder Telecoupling and Climate Governance in Jambi Province, Indonesia

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