Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries?

Verena Bitzer; Mara Francken; Pieter Glasbergen

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.01.002

Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries?

Verena Bitzer^*, Mara Francken, Pieter Glasbergen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent years intersectoral partnerships for sustainable development have been on the rise in many global commodity chains. Taking the coffee chain as an example, we explore the role of partnerships with the help of Global Commodity Chain analysis and Convention Theory. By means of production standards, partnerships are able to influence sustainability challenges at the production level. However, these partnerships show an imbalance in actor involvement, compete with each other and mainly create a parallel production integrated into the conventional chain. While being important initiators of change, partnerships are unable to turn the coffee chain into a sustainable chain. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-284
Number of pages	14
Journal	Global Environmental Change
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.01.002
Publication status	Published - May 2008

Keywords

partnerships
coffee chain
sustainability challenges
governance
FAIR-TRADE
COMMODITY CHAIN
ETHICAL TRADE
QUALITY
GOVERNANCE
CERTIFICATION
CONVENTIONS
NETWORKS
SECTOR
INITIATIVES

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Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries?

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