Voluntary labelling and certification schemes have become increasingly used in global agro-
food chains. They primarily aim at enhancing the sustainability of agricultural production …

A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused
planetary transformation and disruption. Humans are no longer spectators who need to …

Global demand for palm oil is increasing to fulfil worldwide needs for cooking oil, food
ingredients, biofuels, soap and other chemicals. In response, palm oil production is rapidly …

Rapid expansion of oil palm plantations is one of the leading causes of Indonesia's
continued deforestation over the past decades. To reverse this trend against the wave of …

Since the mid-1990s, private sustainability standards and certification schemes have aimed
to introduce a new paradigm in the trade of agricultural commodities. However, there is still a …

Sustainability partnerships have the potential to function as boundary organizations that
intertwine stakeholders from different domains of society to jointly produce knowledge linked …

The production and expansion of palm oil have emerged as a major and controversial issue
in political and public debates in the North and the South on sustainable food and …

Despite mitigation efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already
being witnessed. The decade 2000-2010 was the warmest decade on record with 2010 …

Legitimacy is a key concept for any effort to theorize how governance works. It contributes
both to understanding how the 'interactive processes through which society and the …

The present article analyzes the process of the construction of legitimacy of the Chakay
Collective Brand (Marca Colectiva Chakay) that developed in the spiny lobster fisheries in …