An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture
Sustainability standards and certification serve to differentiate and provide market recognition to goods produced in accordance with social and environmental good practices, typically including practices to protect biodiversity. Such standards have seen rapid growth, including in tropical agricultu...
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| author | Milder, Jeffrey C. Arbuthnot M Blackman, A. Brooks, S. Giovannucci, Daniele Gross LH Kennedy ET Komives K Lambin, E.F. Lee, A. Meyer D Newton, Peter Phalan, B. Schroth, Götz Semroc, Bambi Rokxoort, H. van Zrust, M. |
| author_browse | Arbuthnot M Blackman, A. Brooks, S. Giovannucci, Daniele Gross LH Kennedy ET Komives K Lambin, E.F. Lee, A. Meyer D Milder, Jeffrey C. Newton, Peter Phalan, B. Rokxoort, H. van Schroth, Götz Semroc, Bambi Zrust, M. |
| author_facet | Milder, Jeffrey C. Arbuthnot M Blackman, A. Brooks, S. Giovannucci, Daniele Gross LH Kennedy ET Komives K Lambin, E.F. Lee, A. Meyer D Newton, Peter Phalan, B. Schroth, Götz Semroc, Bambi Rokxoort, H. van Zrust, M. |
| author_sort | Milder, Jeffrey C. |
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| description | Sustainability standards and certification serve to differentiate and provide market recognition to goods produced in accordance with social and environmental good practices, typically including practices to protect biodiversity. Such standards have seen rapid growth, including in tropical agricultural commodities such as cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soybeans, and tea. Given the role of sustainability standards in influencing land use in hotspots of biodiversity, deforestation, and agricultural intensification, much could be gained from efforts to evaluate and increase the conservation payoff of these schemes. To this end, we devised a systematic approach for monitoring and evaluating the conservation impacts of agricultural sustainability standards and for using the resulting evidence to improve the effectiveness of such standards over time. The approach is oriented around a set of hypotheses and corresponding research questions about how sustainability standards are predicted to deliver conservation benefits. These questions are addressed through data from multiple sources, including basic common information from certification audits; field monitoring of environmental outcomes at a sample of certified sites; and rigorous impact assessment research based on experimental or quasi-experimental methods. Integration of these sources can generate time-series data that are comparable across sites and regions and provide detailed portraits of the effects of sustainability standards. To implement this approach, we propose new collaborations between the conservation research community and the sustainability standards community to develop common indicators and monitoring protocols, foster data sharing and synthesis, and link research and practice more effectively. As the role of sustainability standards in tropical land-use governance continues to evolve, robust evidence on the factors contributing to effectiveness can help to ensure that such standards are designed and implemented to maximize benefits for biodiversity conservation. Una Agenda para Evaluar y Mejorar los Impactos de Conservación de los Estándares de Sustentabilidad sobre la Agricultura Tropical |
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| spelling | CGSpace765982024-08-27T06:52:57Z An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture Milder, Jeffrey C. Arbuthnot M Blackman, A. Brooks, S. Giovannucci, Daniele Gross LH Kennedy ET Komives K Lambin, E.F. Lee, A. Meyer D Newton, Peter Phalan, B. Schroth, Götz Semroc, Bambi Rokxoort, H. van Zrust, M. climate change agriculture food security biodiversity certification evaluation evidence-based conservation monitoring voluntary sustainability standards biodiversidad certificación conservación con base en evidencias evaluación monitoreo normas voluntarias de sostenibilidad Sustainability standards and certification serve to differentiate and provide market recognition to goods produced in accordance with social and environmental good practices, typically including practices to protect biodiversity. Such standards have seen rapid growth, including in tropical agricultural commodities such as cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soybeans, and tea. Given the role of sustainability standards in influencing land use in hotspots of biodiversity, deforestation, and agricultural intensification, much could be gained from efforts to evaluate and increase the conservation payoff of these schemes. To this end, we devised a systematic approach for monitoring and evaluating the conservation impacts of agricultural sustainability standards and for using the resulting evidence to improve the effectiveness of such standards over time. The approach is oriented around a set of hypotheses and corresponding research questions about how sustainability standards are predicted to deliver conservation benefits. These questions are addressed through data from multiple sources, including basic common information from certification audits; field monitoring of environmental outcomes at a sample of certified sites; and rigorous impact assessment research based on experimental or quasi-experimental methods. Integration of these sources can generate time-series data that are comparable across sites and regions and provide detailed portraits of the effects of sustainability standards. To implement this approach, we propose new collaborations between the conservation research community and the sustainability standards community to develop common indicators and monitoring protocols, foster data sharing and synthesis, and link research and practice more effectively. As the role of sustainability standards in tropical land-use governance continues to evolve, robust evidence on the factors contributing to effectiveness can help to ensure that such standards are designed and implemented to maximize benefits for biodiversity conservation. Una Agenda para Evaluar y Mejorar los Impactos de Conservación de los Estándares de Sustentabilidad sobre la Agricultura Tropical 2015-04 2016-08-25T11:51:33Z 2016-08-25T11:51:33Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/76598 en Limited Access Wiley Milder JC, Arbuthnot M, Blackman A, Brooks S, Giovannucci D, Gross LH, Kennedy ET, Komives K, Lambin EF, Lee A, Meyer D, Newton P, Phalan B, Schroth G, Semroc B, van Rokxoort H, Zrust M. 2015. An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture. Conservation Biology 29(2):309-320. |
| spellingShingle | climate change agriculture food security biodiversity certification evaluation evidence-based conservation monitoring voluntary sustainability standards biodiversidad certificación conservación con base en evidencias evaluación monitoreo normas voluntarias de sostenibilidad Milder, Jeffrey C. Arbuthnot M Blackman, A. Brooks, S. Giovannucci, Daniele Gross LH Kennedy ET Komives K Lambin, E.F. Lee, A. Meyer D Newton, Peter Phalan, B. Schroth, Götz Semroc, Bambi Rokxoort, H. van Zrust, M. An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| title | An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| title_full | An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| title_fullStr | An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| title_short | An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| title_sort | agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture |
| topic | climate change agriculture food security biodiversity certification evaluation evidence-based conservation monitoring voluntary sustainability standards biodiversidad certificación conservación con base en evidencias evaluación monitoreo normas voluntarias de sostenibilidad |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/76598 |
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