Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil
A number of governance mechanisms address socio-environmental challenges associated with commodity agriculture in tropical forested countries. Governance mechanisms that prove effective in one agricultural sector are often applied to other sectors as well. For example, voluntary certification progra...
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| author | Hajjar, Reem Newton, Peter Ashead, Daniel Bogaerts, Meghan Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice Pinto, Louis F.G. McDermott, Constance Milder, Jeffrey Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Agrawal, Arun |
| author_browse | Agrawal, Arun Ashead, Daniel Bogaerts, Meghan Hajjar, Reem Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice McDermott, Constance Milder, Jeffrey Newton, Peter Pinto, Louis F.G. Wollenberg, Eva Karoline |
| author_facet | Hajjar, Reem Newton, Peter Ashead, Daniel Bogaerts, Meghan Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice Pinto, Louis F.G. McDermott, Constance Milder, Jeffrey Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Agrawal, Arun |
| author_sort | Hajjar, Reem |
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| description | A number of governance mechanisms address socio-environmental challenges associated with commodity agriculture in tropical forested countries. Governance mechanisms that prove effective in one agricultural sector are often applied to other sectors as well. For example, voluntary certification programs have been adopted by producers of commodities as diverse as beef, coffee, palm oil, and soy. However, there are substantial differences in the extent to which governance mechanisms scale up and achieve impact in different sectors. This paper analyzes how the potential for scaling up a particular governance mechanism is influenced by environmental, market, and social geographies that differ between sectors. Through stakeholder interviews, farm-level surveys, and a literature review, we examine two types of voluntary governance mechanisms (third-party certification, and sustainable intensification programs) in the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil, to understand why the two governance mechanisms have scaled differently between these two sectors. We find that third-party certification programs have scaled up relatively well in Brazil's coffee sector, more so than its cattle sector, in part owing to differences in sustainability priorities, market orientations, supply chain traceability, and social networks between the two sectors. We also find that pilot sustainable intensification programs in the cattle sector have had more success than certification in engaging farmers, in part because they involve less investment from participating farmers. We conclude that the distribution and quality of environmental resources, markets, knowledge, actors, and networks can play an important role in the ability of a governance mechanism to effectively take root. |
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| spelling | CGSpace975512024-05-01T08:16:04Z Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil Hajjar, Reem Newton, Peter Ashead, Daniel Bogaerts, Meghan Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice Pinto, Louis F.G. McDermott, Constance Milder, Jeffrey Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Agrawal, Arun climate change food security agriculture cattle coffee A number of governance mechanisms address socio-environmental challenges associated with commodity agriculture in tropical forested countries. Governance mechanisms that prove effective in one agricultural sector are often applied to other sectors as well. For example, voluntary certification programs have been adopted by producers of commodities as diverse as beef, coffee, palm oil, and soy. However, there are substantial differences in the extent to which governance mechanisms scale up and achieve impact in different sectors. This paper analyzes how the potential for scaling up a particular governance mechanism is influenced by environmental, market, and social geographies that differ between sectors. Through stakeholder interviews, farm-level surveys, and a literature review, we examine two types of voluntary governance mechanisms (third-party certification, and sustainable intensification programs) in the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil, to understand why the two governance mechanisms have scaled differently between these two sectors. We find that third-party certification programs have scaled up relatively well in Brazil's coffee sector, more so than its cattle sector, in part owing to differences in sustainability priorities, market orientations, supply chain traceability, and social networks between the two sectors. We also find that pilot sustainable intensification programs in the cattle sector have had more success than certification in engaging farmers, in part because they involve less investment from participating farmers. We conclude that the distribution and quality of environmental resources, markets, knowledge, actors, and networks can play an important role in the ability of a governance mechanism to effectively take root. 2019-01 2018-10-01T18:48:46Z 2018-10-01T18:48:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97551 en Open Access Elsevier Hajjar R, Newton P, Adshead A, Bogaerts M, Maguire-Rajpaul VA, Pinto LFG, McDermott CL, Milder JC, Wollenberg E, Agrawal A. 2019. Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production, 206:124-132. |
| spellingShingle | climate change food security agriculture cattle coffee Hajjar, Reem Newton, Peter Ashead, Daniel Bogaerts, Meghan Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice Pinto, Louis F.G. McDermott, Constance Milder, Jeffrey Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Agrawal, Arun Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil |
| title | Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil |
| title_full | Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil |
| title_short | Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil |
| title_sort | scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in brazil |
| topic | climate change food security agriculture cattle coffee |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97551 |
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