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Global decisions and local realities: Priorities and producers' upgrading opportunities in agricultural global production networks

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Published 2016 by United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS). Authored by Krauss, J. and Krishnan, A.

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Research Focus

Sustainability Approaches:

Voluntary Sustainability Standards

Sustainability Issues:

Consumers and supply chains
Participant costs and benefits
Rights of indigenous peoples and local communities

Outcomes of Interest:

Community development and infrastructure
Sustainable sourcing

Specific Themes:

Accessibility
Smallholders
Supply chain benefits

Sectors:

Agriculture

Products:

Cocoa

Sustainable Development Goals:

SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 12 - Responsible Production and Consumption
Region/Country:

Geographies:

Africa
Central America and Caribbean

Countries:

Kenya
Nicaragua

Summary

As certification is proving ever more popular as a particular manifestation of economic, social and environmental upgrading activities, this paper seeks to explore the socio-economic, commercial and environmental priorities, which shape stakeholder certification choices in global production networks (GPNs), and the implications which upgrading intentions entail for smallholders' development outcomes. The paper argues that there is a need to problematize firstly the diverging socio-economic, environmental and commercial priorities, which different stakeholders associate with the implementation of sustainability standards, and secondly to unpack the assumed automatism of upgrading activities entailing benefits for producers at the local level. The paper introduces a malleable approach, the 'constellation of priorities' that enables systematic assessment of drivers across stakeholders, thus providing agency to all GPN participants. The paper presents two agricultural global production networks as case studies, the production of fresh fruit and vegetables in Kenya and the cocoa sector in Nicaragua. The case-studies explore the complexities of the tensions between stakeholders' socio-economic, commercial and environmental priorities, highlighting that priorities projected through stakeholders' power and embeddedness relations affect how local outcomes, positive and negative, materialise for farmers.
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Global decisions and local realities: Priorities and producers' upgrading opportunities in agricultural global production networks

Descriptive information
Research briefing

Published 2016 by United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS). Authored by Krauss, J. and Krishnan, A.

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