Changing regulatory arrangements in food governance

Havinga, T.; Casey, Donal; Waarden, Frans van

doi:10.4337/9781784715410.00009

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“…FVCs have become increasingly globalised in the last few decades, leading to more complex food governance. Globalization has led to the fragmented territorial jurisdiction of value chains and the increased participation of international and regional organizations in governance [47].…”

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Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

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Transitioning agri-food systems towards increased sustainability and resilience requires that attention be paid to sustainable food consumption policies. Policy-making processes often require the engagement and acceptance of key stakeholders. This study analyses stakeholders’ solutions for creating sustainable agri-food systems, through interviews with a broad range of stakeholders including food value chain actors, non-governmental organizations, governmental institutions, research institutions and academic experts. The study draws on 38 in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in four European countries: France, Iceland, Italy and the UK, as well as three interviews with high-level EU experts. The interviewees’ solutions were analysed according to a five-category typology of policy tools, encompassing direct activity regulations, and market-based, knowledge-based, governance and strategic policy tools. Most of the identified solutions were located in the strategic tools category, reflecting shared recognition of the need to integrate food policy to achieve long-term goals. Emerging solutions—those which were most commonly identified among the different national contexts—were then used to derive empirically-grounded and more universally applicable recommendations for the advancement of sustainable food consumption policies.

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Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

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“…Most of the food processing companies rely on sugars, and generally, the overly used type of sugar is the GMO-sugar because it is readily available. Companies that sought non-GMO sugar have to find other suppliers who, in most cases, are further, and shipping takes longer for the supplies to arrive at the factories (Havinga et al, 2015). Social responsibility means taking the lead in social justice and ensuring that a company will take the risk for the sake of the people.…”

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Green Organizational Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation, and Food Safety

Liu

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2020

Front. Psychol.

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Food safety, ultimately, is a human-centered work. No matter how regulations are coercively released and implemented, the free will and behaviors of human actors (e.g., employees) lead to a real result in food safety. A real motivator of such free will and behaviors is organizational culture that stimulates meaningful organizational actions. Based on such rationale, this conceptual article sets to discuss the relationships between green organizational culture, corporate social responsibility implementation (hereafter CSR), and food safety. As organizational culture has been largely discussed in Management and Business literature, green organizational culture and its impacts on socially and environmentally friendly organizational behaviors, as well as public health outcomes like food safety, is wanted. With the clarification of the relationships between these three important constructs, theoretical implications for future research and practical implications for governance and policy-making are well generated.

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“…In Canada, the current public regulatory approach to food safety is composed of government agencies and departments (institutions) at the federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, and tribal government levels through a variety of law making and policy development activities (processes) to create Acts, Regulations, and other policies (rule instruments) that are implemented by the food producer and enforced by food safety inspectors (actors). The predominant private regulatory approach to food safety in Canada is the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) (Anders, Souza-Monteiro, & Rouvière, 2010;Barling & Lang, 2003;García Martinez, Poole, Skinner, Illés, & Lehota, 2006;Giraud-Héraud, Hammoudi, Hoffmann, & Soler, 2012;Global Food Safety Initiative [GFSI], 2018c;Havinga, 2011;Havinga, Casey, & van Waarden, 2015;Bernd M.J. van der Meulen, 2011a). The GFSI is an organization composed of actors from a number of other organizations, including the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), food retailers, Certification Programme Owners (CPO), Certification Bodies (CB), Accreditation Bodies (AB), food producers and other stakeholders.…”

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“…This dissertation acknowledges that no regulatory approach, be it the public sector's 'command and control' regulations, the private sector's third-party certification approach, or the civil sector's religious dietary laws (as an example) arise without a historical context and that this context is extremely important to the institutions, processes, rule instruments and actors involved in governing. Other authors have explored the origin and impacts of the GFSI-system on the food regulatory landscape, and therefore this context is not within the scope of this dissertation (Henson & Hooker, 2001;Barling & Lang, 2003;Hatanaka et al, 2005;Garcia Martinez et al, 2006;Fuchs & Kalfagianni, 2010;Busch, 2011b;Fuchs, Kalfagianni, Clapp, et al, 2011;van der Meulen, 2011;Havinga et al, 2015;. Having acknowledged this, this dissertation will present the historical context of the public and private regulatory approaches only as necessary to understand the current-day state of affairs and focuses on the public and private sector governing activities with respect to food safety that are in place today.…”

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Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

Driscoll¹

2021

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Governments are faced with a variety of challenging issues that have proven difficult to manage, one of which is providing safe food to its citizens. Recognizing this, and in response to several high-profile food safety crises in the late 1990s, food retailers created the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a private food safety regulatory approach. Certification to a GFSI-benchmarked private standard is often required through customer-supplier contracts, and as a result, food producers in the global agri-food supply chain may be subject to both the public and a private food safety regulatory approach. This dissertation uses Webb’s (2005) sustainable governance framework, which maintains that public, private, and civil sectors’ institutions, processes, rule instruments and actors have regulatory capabilities in support of public policy objectives, to explore whether or not the GFSI auditor, an actor in the GFSI-system, supports the public heath objectives of the state. Three primary research questions were developed to pursue this inquiry. First, on a functional level, can the GFSI auditor can be considered a public health practitioner analogous to the government’s food safety inspector? Second, do GFSI auditors view themselves as public health practitioners? Third, do other actors in the GFSI-system consider GFSI auditors to be public health practitioners? Using a mixed methods investigative approach, this dissertation presents the following conclusion: though the GFSI auditor can be characterized as a public health practitioner who supports the state’s public health objectives, neither the auditors themselves nor other actors, e.g. representatives of Certification Bodies, Certification Programme Owners, etc., in the GFSIsystem who participated in this research characterize the GFSI auditor as a public health practitioner. The final chapter of this dissertation discusses the public health and policy study significance of this investigation, provides policy recommendations to both the public and private institutions and actors involved governing food safety in Canada intended to strengthen the overall public health system by recognizing the role that GFSI auditors have in promoting public health objectives, and opportunities for further research.

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Changing regulatory arrangements in food governance

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

Green Organizational Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation, and Food Safety

Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

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