Better management practices (BMPs) for shrimp farming are a standardized set of farming
practices to ensure the environmental and financial sustainability of shrimp farming systems …

Aquaculture has been responsible for an impressive growth in the global supply of seafood.
As of 2016, more than half of all global seafood production comes from aquaculture. To meet …

Highlights•Most sustainability governance arrangements focus on the farm scale.•But
production risks extend beyond the farm.•New arrangements are needed to enable shared …

The ongoing growth of concerns with regard to the sustainability of the planet has led to the
increasing expansion on international agendas of commercial certification schemes based …

The authors show how certification assembles 'sustainable'territories through a complex
layering of regulatory authority in which both government and nongovernment entities claim …

Nongovernmental private organizations have used certification as a governance instrument
to advance the socioenvironmental and ethical sustainability of industrial aquaculture …

This paper investigates multi-stakeholder arrangements initiated by businesses and NGOs
from the North that aim to enhance a more sustainable agricultural production at specific …

In the context of the exhaustion of marine fisheries, aquaculture increasingly plays a
mounting role in the world economy and food security. However, it is confronted with and …

Over the past decade, the sustainability of seafood production has improved and is cause for
ocean optimism. In an attempt for recognition of ongoing efforts, many producers and food …

Certification of adherence to social and environmental standards allows companies involved
in the (global) trade of commodities to dissociate themselves from negative impacts in the …