Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
Tallontire, Anne, Opondo, Maggie, Nelson, Valerie and Martin, Adrienne (2011) Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains. Agriculture and Human Values, 28 (3). pp. 427-441. ISSN 0889-048X (Print), 1572-8366 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10460-009-9237-2)Full text not available from this repository.
The significance of private standards and associated local level initiatives in agri-food value chains are increasingly recognised. However whilst issues related to compliance and impact at the smallholder or worker level have frequently been analysed, the governance implications in terms of how private standards affect national level institutions, public, private and non-governmental, have had less attention. This article applies an extended value chain framework for critical analysis of Private Standards Initiatives (PSIs) in agrifood chains, drawing on primary research on PSIs operating in Kenyan horticulture (Horticulture Ethical Business Initiative and KenyaGAP). The paper explores the legislative, executive and judicial aspects of governance in these southern PSIs highlighting how different stakeholders shape debates and act with agency. It is argued that governance is exercised ‘beyond the vertical’ in that one can identify wider horizontal processes of governance, including how the scope of key debates is constructed (especially in legislative governance) but analysis of executive governance emphasises the dominant role of the lead buyers.
|Additional Information:|| Published online: 19 September 2009.  Published in print: September 2011.  Published as: Agriculture and Human Values, September 2011, Volume 28, Issue 3, pp 427-441.|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Kenya, private standards, governance, value chain analysis|
|Subjects:||S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)|
|School / Department / Research Groups:||Natural Resources Institute
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions
Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions
|Last Modified:||06 Dec 2013 16:30|
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