In the past two decades, convention theory has been applied in various branches of agro-
food studies, providing analytical and theoretical insight for examining alternative food …

The central disagreement between McMichael and Bernstein boils down to how each of
them analyses food and agriculture in relation to capitalist dynamics. McMichael thinks the …

Global private sustainability standards in agriculture today govern a range of commodities
produced in the tropics. Our study analyses the most well-established of these standards …

This article evaluates and develops the contribution of pragmatic sociology to the study of
urban life and politics, by way of analysing recent shifts in the cultural-political forms of civic …

Social and environmental safeguards are now commonplace in policies and procedures that
apply to certain kinds of foreign investment in developing countries. Prominent amongst …

Abstract In 2009 the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) established a conflict
resolution mechanism to help rural communities address their grievances against palm oil …

Over the past few decades, sustainability standards and certification have come to play an
important role in the global governance of production and trade. Their purpose is to address …

The French school of Convention Theory has influenced various branches of agri-food
studies in the past two decades, as part of a wider trend in the Anglophone social sciences …

The culturally and ecologically diverse Pacific lowlands of Colombia are both the locus and
product of key political economic and cultural political conjunctures. Twenty‐five years after …

Mechanisms to standardize sustainable agricultural practices first emerged in the early
2000s with the goal of establishing responsible rules of corporate behaviour. Based on …