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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 +4 more
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Abatement and Transaction Costs of Carbon-Sink Projects Involving Smallholders [PDF]
Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses. However, participation in carbon-sink projects may be constrained by high costs.
Oscar Cacho, Leslie Lipper
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie +4 more
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, 2023 A number of global trends, such as concurrent rises in incomes and urbanization, are driving the increased consumption of meat, dairy, and biofuels. Meeting the demand for products will require considerable increases in global production, particularly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder farming predominates and yields remain low. At
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Evaluation of a Hybrid Seed Contract Between Smallholders and an MNC in East Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Three hundred smallholders near Malang in East Java were surveyed of whom 150 were participating in a hybrid seed contract with Pioneer Hybrid International Inc, an American MNC that has been contracting in the area since 1986.
Patrick, Ian +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice production sustains food security and rural livelihoods across many low‐income countries but remains highly vulnerable to climate‐related hazards, including floods, droughts, salinity intrusion and heat stress, which reduce yields and threaten the long‐term sustainability of rice production.
Apurbo Sarkar +4 more
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Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia VeterináriaAn epidemiological survey was undertaken from March to September 2010 to assess the prevalence and zoonotic aspects of scabies in small ruminants in two agro-ecological zones in southern Benin.
Sahidou Salifou +3 more
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Deforestation‐Free Cocoa: Implications for Organizational Adaptation and Compliance Costs
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mandatory due diligence is an emerging policy instrument for addressing global environmental challenges, yet how such regulations reshape firm‐level organizational structures and generate compliance costs remains poorly understood. Drawing on organizational theory, this study examines how companies in the German cocoa and chocolate sector ...
Daniel Braun +2 more
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Big data for smallholders [PDF]
, 2017 This paper provides an insight into how big data can be applied for smallholders in the settings of developing or underdeveloped country. It begins by giving an introduction on big data and shows how big data can be utilized. Specific examples on how big
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
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