What problems can private regulatory governance solve, and what role should public policy
play? Despite access to the same empirical evidence, the current scholarship on private …

Summary Voluntary Sustainability Standards-Setting Organizations (VSSSOs) create
standards to improve the social and/or environmental impacts of globalized production …

To address global sustainability challenges, adequate governance solutions are needed.
Yet, sustainability governance is typically fragmented. This fragmentation poses a key …

This article examines the phenomenon of uncertified producers of otherwise certifiable
organic food embedded in value chains whose farm products conform to elevated …

Fair trade seeks to promote the well-being and empowerment of farmers and workers in the
Global South. This article traces the contested growth and configuration of Fairtrade …

Fairtrade International (FTI) sets forth in its theory of change a food future that consists of fair
trade, small farmer and farm worker empowerment and sustainable livelihoods for producers …

In recent years, consumers in the United States have been confronted by no fewer than four
competing fair-trade labels, each grounded in a separate certification system and widely …

A global expansion in public and private initiatives seeks to strengthen the link between
traditional products and sustainable development by creating a niche in the market for these …

Fairness is a relative concept with multiple, subjective and competing notions of what it is,
how to achieve it, and for which beneficiaries. Fairtrade International's collaborative efforts to …

This article unravels how fair trade organizations use social impact disclosures as forms of
symbolic power amid stakeholder concerns that prevail in the fair trade field. Mobilizing …