Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
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DOI：
10.1007/s10460-009-9237-2
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发表时间：
2011-09
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
A. Tallontire;M. Opondo;V. Nelson;Adrienne M. Martin
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作者：
A. Tallontire;M. Opondo;V. Nelson;Adrienne M. Martin
私人标准和相关地方举措在农业食品价值链中的重要性日益得到认可。然而，尽管人们经常分析与小农或工人层面的合规性和影响相关的问题，但私营标准如何影响国家层面的机构（公共、私营和非政府）方面的治理影响却很少受到关注。本文利用扩展价值链框架对农业食品链中的私人标准倡议 (PSI) 进行批判性分析，借鉴了肯尼亚园艺业中私营标准倡议 (PSI) 的初步研究（园艺道德商业倡议和肯尼亚 GAP）。本文探讨了这些南部PSI 治理的立法、行政和司法方面，强调了不同利益相关者如何形成辩论并采取行动。有人认为，治理的实施“超越垂直”，因为人们可以识别更广泛的横向治理过程，包括如何构建关键辩论的范围（特别是在立法治理中），但对行政治理的分析强调了主要买家的主导作用。
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.