While mainstream value chain development (VCD) has focused on enhancing the efficiency
of processes along the chain, policies increasingly endeavor to address poverty …

This article examines global trends likely to influence forests and tree-based systems and
considers the poverty implications of these interactions. The trends, identified through a …

Although corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice increasingly addresses gender
issues, and gender and CSR scholarship is expanding, feminist theory is rarely explicitly …

Over the past 20 years, standards and certification have become the leading governance
mechanism for determining what sustainability entails, how to measure it, and how to assess …

Agricultural commercialization can help to lift subsistence farmers out of poverty, but can
also have adverse effects on gender equality. We explore whether private food standards …

This article provides an empirical analysis of the gender gap for farming in the United States.
Using the 2012 US Census of Agriculture we show that farms operated by women earn forty …

Governance for sustainable development increasingly involves diverse stakeholder groups,
with the promise of enhanced legitimacy and effectiveness in decision-making and …

Recently, sustainability standards have gained in importance for export crops produced in
developing countries. Several studies analyzed whether such standards deliver on their …

This article provides a review of scholarly approaches to assessing the impact of certification
standards for sustainability. While we observe that some theoretical advances have afforded …

There have been calls for a shift of focus toward the political and power-laden aspects of
transitioning toward socially equitable global supply chains. This article offers an empirically …