Selling Sustainability Short?

Grabs, Janina

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“…At the same time, traders also provide information, technical support and credit to farmers. Both types of actors have a key role in promoting more sustainable practices, since market-based incentives are needed to overcome the high costs of adopting alternative (and sometimes radically so) practices (Grabs, 2020;Verburg et al, 2019). Chapters 3 and 4 show how behavioral variables, such as the need to share information about technologies and the effects of climate change, tackle technology misinformation and the perception of support networks all increase farmers' acceptance and adoption of CSA practices.…”

Section: Private Efforts and Incremental Changementioning

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Bridging the gap : Understanding farmer-system dynamics in the transition toward sustainable coffee production in Costa Rica

Rodríguez Barillas

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Chapter 1 General Introduction 1.1 Agriculture and climate change impacts: the need for mitigation and adaptation 1.2 Theoretical framework 1.2.1 Socio-technical sustainability transition 1.2.2 Policy appraisal as a starting point for policy feedback 1.2.3 Individual agency 1.2.4 Overview of CSA 1.3 Analytical framework and specific research questions 1.4 Research context 1.4.1 Key figures on Costa Rica and its agricultural sector 1.4.2 Costa Rican agricultural policy context 1.5 Methodological approach 1.5.1 Research design 1.5.2 Data collection and analysis 1.6 Reading guide for the thesis Chapter 2 Transformative policy mix or policy pandemonium? Insights from the Climate Smart Agriculture policy mix in Costa Rica Abstract 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Analytical framework 2.2.1 Balanced policy mixes for both niche support and regime destabilization 2.2.2 Policy mix characteristics: coherence and consistency 2.2.3 Influence of historical and institutional context on policy mixes 2.2.4 Policy coordination 2.3 Methodology 2.3.1 Policy mix: scope, dimensions, and boundaries 2.3.2 Data collection 2.3.3 Data analysis 2.4 Costa Rica as a case study: a transition toward Climate Smart Agriculture 2.5 Development of the transformative policy mix for Climate Smart Agriculture 2.5.1 Overview of the policy mix: policy elements 2.5.2 Directionality 2.5.3 Unraveling the CSA policy mix characteristics 2.5.4 Climate-smart policy mix context 2.5.5 Policy coordination 2.6 Discussion 2.6.1 Costa Rican CSA policy: a transformative policy mix in the making or stifled by inertia? 2.6.2 Contributions to the transformative policy mix literature 2.6.3 Limitations and future research 2.7 Conclusion Chapter 3 What determines the acceptance of Climate Smart Technologies? The influence of farmers' behavioral drivers in connection with the policy environment Abstract 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Farmers' behavioral drivers and the policy environment 3.2.1 Behavioral drivers on technology acceptance 3.2.2 Policy environment: Appraisal of the policy mix 3.3 Methodology 3.3.1 Case study: the Costa Rican Coffee sector 3.3.2 Methods 3.4 Results 3.4.1 Measurement model 3.4.2 Model estimation results 3.5 Discussion and Conclusion 3.5.1 Unpacking farmer's behavioral predictors for CSA acceptance 3.5.2 Behavioral drivers and the composition of the instrument mix 3.5.3 Unpacking the "black box" of CSA policy environment: the key role of coherence 3.5.4 Policy implications and recommendations 3.5.5 Limitations and further questions Chapter 4 Unraveling farmers' interrelated Climate-Smart Agriculture adoption decisions under perceived climate change risks Abstract 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Theoretical background 4.2.1 Protection Motivation Theory 4.2.2 Perceived risks of protective behavior 4.2.3 Farmers' social and demographic characteristics 4.2.4 Extended model 4.3 Methods 4.3.1 Study area 4.3.2 Sampling and survey 4.3.3 Variables measurement 4.3.4 Models estimation 4.4 Results 4.4.1 Descriptive statistics: dependent and explanatory variables 4.4.2 Drivers explaining in...

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Bridging the gap : Understanding farmer-system dynamics in the transition toward sustainable coffee production in Costa Rica

Rodríguez Barillas

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Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda

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2021

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Corporate actors are rapidly gaining ground as nontraditional forms of authority that shape sustainability governance efforts in global food supply chains. This paper highlights the critical, but underresearched role of traders—companies whose core business lies in the movement and exchange of agricultural commodities between producers and manufacturers—in linking corporate sustainability ambitions to on‐the‐ground impacts. Drawing on a systematic analysis of the major transnational corporations trading cocoa, coffee, and palm oil, we present advantages and potential pitfalls of relying on traders as implementers of sustainability governance and outline a future research agenda that focuses on producer‐level impacts, changes in supply chain organization and power dynamics, and traders' interactions with state and other nonstate actors. At the intersection of supply chain management, political economy, geography, and global governance, research on traders as key sustainability governance actors also provides novel opportunities for interdisciplinary work and stakeholder engagement.

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A theory of credible cross‐temporal corporate commitments as goal‐based private sustainability governance

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2023

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Goal‐based corporate supply chain commitments to zero‐deforestation, carbon neutrality, or sustainable sourcing have become important elements of businesses' sustainability and reputation management practices. However, we still know little about the conditions under which such cross‐temporal commitments are likely to be successful. This article introduces commitment credibility as a crucial but understudied antecedent of success. Drawing on the economic theory of imagined futures, it shows how cross‐temporal signaling via commitments may change suppliers' expectations and related actions and thereby co‐create more sustainable futures. By using insights from credible commitment theory, it argues that this pathway relies on high motivational and/or imperative credibility of the committed company. Contrasting the example of zero‐deforestation commitments in the palm oil sector with commitments to sustainable seafood and no farmworker exploitation, it highlights that the involvement of critical stakeholders (as external accountability partners or third‐party implementing agents) is of particularly high importance for on‐the‐ground success.

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Selling Sustainability Short?

Abstract: I really wonder what impact all the money that the coffee industry spends each year on certifications has in the field. We recently did a back-of-the-envelope Introduction

Cited by 22 publications

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Bridging the gap : Understanding farmer-system dynamics in the transition toward sustainable coffee production in Costa Rica

Bridging the gap : Understanding farmer-system dynamics in the transition toward sustainable coffee production in Costa Rica

Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda

A theory of credible cross‐temporal corporate commitments as goal‐based private sustainability governance

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