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Certification schemes and the governance of land : enforcing standards or enabling scrutiny?
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Fortin, Elizabeth and Richardson, Ben (2013) Certification schemes and the governance of land : enforcing standards or enabling scrutiny? Globalizations, Vol.10 (No.1). pp. 141-159. doi:10.1080/14747731.2013.760910
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2013.760910
Abstract
Given the challenges of upholding human rights in countries where land grabbing has been most acute, attention has turned to alternative regulatory mechanisms by which better land governance might be brought about. This essay considers one such approach: certification schemes. These encourage agricultural producers to adopt sustainability standards which are then monitored by third-party auditors. Used by the European Union to help govern its biofuel market, they now also have an important mandatory dimension. However, through a study of Bonsucro and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, we find both flaws in their standards and shortcomings in their ability to discipline the companies they are financially dependent upon. In sum, we suggest that the real value of these roundtable certification schemes might lie less in their ability to enforce standards than their (partially realised) role in enabling scrutiny, providing new possibilities for corporate accountability in transnational commodity chains.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Land use, Rural -- Law and legislation, Land tenure -- Law and legislation, Energy crops industry -- Certification | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Globalizations | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 1474-7731 | ||||
| Official Date: | 15 February 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.10 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 28 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 141-159 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14747731.2013.760910 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | Leverhulme Trust (LT), British Academy (BA) |
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