Social and environmental standards: From fragmentation to coordination

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Research report

Published September 2017 by International Trade Centre (ITC). Authored by Fiorini, M., Schleifer, P. and Taimasova, R.

Summary

This report examines the state of fragmentation across nine key agricultural commodity sectors in the 10 largest producer countries and ways of increasing coordination. It used data on geographical scope of certified or verified producers collected in the Standards Map database for each standard and then measured fragmentation in 90 country-product markets using a requirement overlap index and process overlap index.
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Social and environmental standards: From fragmentation to coordination

Descriptive information
Research report

Published September 2017 by International Trade Centre (ITC). Authored by Fiorini, M., Schleifer, P. and Taimasova, R.