Aspirations toward technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet,
an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfil …

Voluntary sustainability certification schemes (CS) like the well-known Forest Stewardship
Council are valuable approaches to address sustainability issues in different sectors. So far …

Regulation is typically conceived as a two-party relationship between a rule-maker or
regulator (R) and a rule-taker or target (T). We set out an agenda for the study of regulation …

Recent technological and methodological changes in farming have led to an emerging set of
claims about the role of digital technology in food production. Known as precision …

Market‐based instruments of fishery governance have been promoted in the past two
decades on the basis of two widespread expectations: that complying with sustainability …

Over the last 15 years dedicated markets for halal meat have emerged in a number of
European countries. While ethnic stores still constitute the major retail outlet for halal meat in …

This article analyzes the institutionalization of the global organic agriculture field and sheds
new light on the conventionalization debate. The institutions that shape the field form a …

Products certified according to their environmental and social sustainability are becoming an
important feature of production, trade and consumption in the agro‐food …

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of
fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of …

The willingness of public authority to delegate social and environmental regulation to the
private sector has varied from sector to sector, but has often led to the establishment of …