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Why and how market institutions create incentives for adopting sustainable agricultural practices
No full textThis edited volume has gathered together a collection of selected case studies from
around the world, documented by the innovators themselves. The preceding chapters
detail how each case has innovated within its organizational and institutional environments
to create markets for its sustainable products. All the case studies in this volume
are considered “market-driven” innovations. We classify them as such because
the innovators are relying upon innovative market instruments and institutions to
sell products that are cultivated using sustainable agricultural practices. One of the
selection criteria for the case studies was proof that the agricultural practices used by
the innovators were in line with the categories documented in FAO’s Save and grow
publication (2011). We argue that the 15 cases presented in this book exemplify new
ways of organizing farmers who practise sustainable agriculture. These new ways
have changed the rules about how farmers and consumers can be linked through
market exchanges. In this chapter, we explain how we arrived at this conclusion.
The chapter is organized as follows. First, we present our analytical framework
of “institutional innovations”, which is followed by three sections that explain
why and how institutional innovations work. We conclude by explaining how it is
through these institutional innovations that markets act as incentives for the local
use of sustainable practices
Why and how market institutions create incentives for adopting sustainable agricultural practices
No full textThis edited volume has gathered together a collection of selected case studies fromaround the world, documented by the innovators themselves. The preceding chaptersdetail how each case has innovated within its organizational and institutional environmentsto create markets for its sustainable products. All the case studies in this volumeare considered “market-driven” innovations. We classify them as such becausethe innovators are relying upon innovative market instruments and institutions tosell products that are cultivated using sustainable agricultural practices. One of theselection criteria for the case studies was proof that the agricultural practices used bythe innovators were in line with the categories documented in FAO’s Save and growpublication (2011). We argue that the 15 cases presented in this book exemplify newways of organizing farmers who practise sustainable agriculture. These new wayshave changed the rules about how farmers and consumers can be linked throughmarket exchanges. In this chapter, we explain how we arrived at this conclusion.The chapter is organized as follows. First, we present our analytical frameworkof “institutional innovations”, which is followed by three sections that explainwhy and how institutional innovations work. We conclude by explaining how it isthrough these institutional innovations that markets act as incentives for the localuse of sustainable practices
Institutional collaboration for sustainable agriculture: learning from the tea sector in the Southern Highlands of the United Republic of Tanzania
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Institutional collaboration for sustainable agriculture: learning from the tea sector in the Southern Highlands of the United Republic of Tanzania
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Participatory Analysis of the Use and Impact of the Fairtrade Premium
No full textResearchers from LISIS conducted a mixed-methods-based study to analyze how the Fairtrade Premium has been used by Fairtrade organizations and how it generates benefits for Fairtrade producers and their communities. Five cases were explored: a coffee/cocoa small-scale producer organization (SPO) in Peru, a cocoa SPO in Côte d'Ivoire, a banana SPO in Ecuador, a banana SPO in Peru and a flower plantation in Kenya. Using a combination of analysis of data from literature and the case studies, the researchers looked at four characteristics of Fairtrade Premium -- use, participation, accountability, and function -- as well as barriers and enablers for effective Premium use. Finally, the researchers analysed the pathways from Premium investment to six Fairtrade impacts (related to income, gender equality, environmental sustainability, dignity and voice for producers, transparency, and fairness and sustainability of business practices, policy and societal norms). The study provides insights that can enable farmers and workers to make transparent and informed decisions about their Premium use
How do markets encourage the adoption of sustainable practices? The role of institutional innovation in developing countries. Policy Brief
No full textSustainably Performed: Reconciling Global Value Chain Governance and Performativity
Full text linkMerging theories of performativity with Global Value Chains (GVC) analysis, I explore how standards are used within GVCs to govern interactions among actors and to perform a multiplicity of ‘sustainabilities.’ Specifically, this paper presents four case studies of certified tea production in Tanzania (i.e., the Ethical Tea Partnership, Fairtrade, Organic, and Rainforest Alliance) to reveal how visions of sustainability are enacted by different actors in each certified value chain. This analysis reveals that, while the Rainforest Alliance and Ethical Tea Partnership ‘sustainabilities’ are ‘generically’ performed,the Fairtrade andOrganic ‘sustainabilities’ are ‘effective’ in enacting multiple versions of sustainability that have facilitated changes to practices in the tea value chain. This attention to the enactment of values in the practice of agrifood production allows for a more nuanced understanding of governance in value chains and suggests a way to shift discussions of GVC governance away from the primary focus on ‘drivenness’
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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