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Sustainability Certification Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises' Food Supply Chains: Using a Complexity Approach to Build up Foundations

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adopting certifications in food supply chains (FSCs) is a common practice for sustainable management, including among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates how SMEs in FSCs navigate the complexities of certification adoption for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).
Belinda Borrello, Verónica León‐Bravo, Minelle Silva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Qualidade e sustentabilidade: sistemas de certificação do café sob a ótica dos Pilares da Qualidade

Revista Agrogeoambiental, 2019
Qualidade e sustentabilidade são conceitos complexos, mas cada vez mais importantes no contexto da produção de alimentos. Neste cenário, os sistemas de certificações assumem papel importante de coordenação das diversas cadeias.
Paulo Henrique Montagnana Vicente Leme, Cintia Loos Pinto   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Global Standards to Local Compliance: Implementation Heterogeneity in Cocoa Certification in Indonesia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certified companies translate voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) into local practice, yet little is known about how company‐level implementation of VSS relates to farmer compliance. This paper examines Rainforest Alliance (RA) implementation by three certified companies in the Indonesian cocoa sector. Drawing on compliance and regulatory
Charline Depoorter, Janne Bemelmans, Eva Boonaert, Axel Marx, Miet Maertens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flower-Visiting Insects Ensure Coffee Yield and Quality

Agriculture, 2023
(1) Background: The participation of insects in the pollination of self-pollinating plants, such as coffee, is still controversial. This study determined the effect of flower-visiting insects on coffee berry set, yield, and quality.
Jesús Hernando Gómez, Pablo Benavides, Juan Diego Maldonado, Juliana Jaramillo, Flor Edith Acevedo, Zulma Nancy Gil   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reframing Stakeholder Roles in Multistakeholder Partnerships: A Role Theory Approach to Collaborative Action on Food Waste

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) are promoted as collaborative arrangements to address food waste, yet most research focuses on core stakeholders directly involved in food production and consumption, leaving the roles of supporting stakeholders underexplored. This study redirects attention to these vital actors, such as governmental bodies,
Joya A. Kemper, Erica van Herpen, Hilke Bos‐Brouwers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneous states of regenerative agriculture adoption among smallholders in Kenya

Discover Sustainability
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is widely promoted as a pathway to restore agroecosystems and strengthen resilience. However, empirical studies often reduce these pathways to a binary distinction between adopters and non-adopters, obscuring the ...
Joshua Muloi, Hannah Kamau, Bibiana Betancur-Corredor, Edgar Kadenge, Christopher Rwanda, Diida Karayu Wario, Till Stellmacher, Christian Borgemeister, Tina D. Beuchelt   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Badge: Do Sustainable Business Certifications Reflect Employees' Workplace Experiences? Evidence From Employee‐Reported Workplace Evaluations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between sustainability certifications and employee satisfaction by conceptualizing certifications as external signals and internal organizational resources. Drawing on signaling theory and the resource‐based view (RBV), a purposively selected dataset of 172 certified firms and a comparison group of 20,026 ...
Malte Bau, Sumaya Islam, Michael Wunsch
wiley   +1 more source

Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard: Applicable for Smallholders Farms

, 2019
In January 2018, the Rainforest Alliance merged with UTZ. We joined forces because we know that together we can have a greater impact and be a better partner to the many stakeholders we work with. With this new sustainable agriculture standard, we intend
Rainforest Alliance
core   +1 more source

Identifying global hotspots of agricultural expansion into non-forest ecosystems

Nature Communications
Ecologically important non-forest ecosystems, including grasslands, shrublands and wetlands, face substantial threats from agricultural expansion, yet their conversion dynamics remain poorly understood.
Siyi Kan, Jing Meng, U. Martin Persson, Bin Chen, Samuel A. Levy, Elise Mazur, Leah Samberg, Guoqian Chen, Heran Zheng, Thomas Kastner   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source