Hybrid governance in agricultural commodity chains: Insights from implementation of ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ (NDPE) policies in the oil palm industry

Larsen, Rasmus Kløcker; Osbeck, Maria; Dawkins, Elena; Tuhkanen, Heidi; Nguyen, Ha; Nugroho, Agus Dwi; Gardner, Toby; Zulfahm,; Wolvekamp, P.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.125

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“…5) and avoid exacerbating deeply rooted inequalities 114 . Practice is always messier than theory, and the adoption of more sustainable management systems is usually only possible with the support of a range of actors, as can be seen in the recent successes of some hybrid governance approaches, with government, the private sector and civil society organizations all having vital roles 133 .…”

Section: Acting Together and Acting Nowmentioning

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The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Barlow

França

Gardner

et al. 2018

Nature

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The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including almost all shallow-water corals and over 90% of terrestrial birds. However, tropical ecosystems are also subject to pervasive and interacting stressors, such as deforestation, overfishing and climate change, and they are set within a socio-economic context that includes growing pressure from an increasingly globalized world, larger and more affluent tropical populations, and weak governance and response capacities. Concerted local, national and international actions are urgently required to prevent a collapse of tropical biodiversity.

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Section: Acting Together and Acting Nowmentioning

confidence: 99%

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Barlow

França

Gardner

et al. 2018

Nature

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“…For smaller firms or firms using smaller or more diverse types of palm oil, insetting is difficult. Smallholders, similarly, face barriers to certification, let alone to traceability [50], a fact noted often by growers and social/development NGOs in their ACOPs and acknowledged in the RSPO's more positive stance toward smallholder offsets. While for smallholders and other growers market exit may not be particularly attractive, leading them to opt to remain uncertified, there is evidence from the ACOPs that some consumer goods manufacturers may turn toward palm oil alternatives.…”

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“…These approaches, too, have their drawbacks. As Larsen et al [50] point out, similar approaches can potentially be anti-democratic, even neo-colonial, as downstream firms come to be seen to dictate production practices.…”

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Offsetting, Insetting, or Both? Current Trends in Sustainable Palm Oil Certification

Gallemore

Jespersen

2019

Sustainability

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Private environmental standards attempt, in part, to internalize environmental externalities. Offsetting firms’ environmental externalities by buying credits is one option. Another is insetting, in which firms attempt to address externalities and provide positive benefits within their own supply chain. These two approaches to internalizing externalities can be in tension, leading toward different types of sustainable markets. Firms adopting private standards as way of avoiding reputational risks may be more likely to support insetting than offsetting strategies if their primary goal is to distinguish themselves from the rest of their industry, but these strategies can also risk separating the market into niche, high-quality producers alongside a low-quality majority. These tensions play out in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), where offsetting and insetting exist side-by-side. Strategic pressures promoting insetting strategies lead firms to exit the system’s offset market, but this comes with the cost of losing some of the flexibility and lowered entry barriers the offset approach offers. New technologies might allow standards to combine the benefits of both approaches, keeping the reputational benefits of insetting and the flexibility of offsetting.

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“…Non-state actors comprise a variety of stakeholders including private entities such as business actors, multinational corporations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions and academia. The involvement of these actors through hybrid public-private governance is also termed multi-stakeholder governance [21]. Although there is no internationally agreed definition for multi-stakeholderism, it has been broadly conceptualised in the field of 'interactive governance' as:…”

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Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Marx¹

2019

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There is a growing concern about the extent to which multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), designed to improve social and environmental sustainability in global supply chains, give a meaningful voice to less powerful stakeholders. Trade unions are one particular civil society group whose participation in MSIs has received little scholarly attention so far. The objective of this paper is to examine the determinants that enable and constrain trade union participation in MSIs. Based on interviews, focus groups, observations and document analysis we determine local trade union participation in three MSIs, operating at company, national and transnational level respectively, in the Costa Rican pineapple industry. To explain the limited encountered trade union participation, an analytical framework is developed combining structural and agency dimensions, namely the MSI design and trade union's power resources. The findings show shortcomings in the representativeness, procedural fairness and consensual orientation in the design and implementation of the MSIs. These are, however, not sufficient to explain weak trade union participation as trade union power resources also have an influence. Strong network embeddedness and improved infrastructural resources had a positive effect, whereas the lack of internal solidarity and unfavourable narrative resources constrained the unions' participation.

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Hybrid governance in agricultural commodity chains: Insights from implementation of ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ (NDPE) policies in the oil palm industry

Cited by 54 publications

References 33 publications

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Offsetting, Insetting, or Both? Current Trends in Sustainable Palm Oil Certification

Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

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