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dc.contributor.authorLund-Thomsen, Peter
dc.contributor.authorRiisgaard, Lone
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Sukhpal
dc.contributor.authorGhori, Shakil
dc.contributor.authorCoe, Neil M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T09:16:20Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T09:16:20Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-14
dc.identifier.citationLund‐Thomsen, P., Riisgaard, L., Singh, S., Ghori, S., & Coe, N. M. (2021). Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India. Development and Change, 52(3), 504-532.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12647
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/24406
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We conceptualize how the key roles of regulatory intermediaries — translating and verifying compliance with abstract rules in ways that make these rules practical and intelligible for target audiences (in this case, cotton farmers) — may be compromised by global value chain pressures and contradictory MSI requirements, thereby undermining the aim of mainstreaming sustainability standard systems. In other words, we theorize how MSIs can become subject to regulatory capture, serving the needs of global brands (for rapid upscaling, price minimization and verification) and sustainability standard bodies (contradictory demands for capacity building and compliance) at the expense of the intended beneficiaries — farmers at the base of global value chains. Based on an empirical analysis of the Better Cotton Initiative's implementing partners in Pakistan and India, we conclude that such weaknesses in standard implementation are likely to translate into poorer field-level results in terms of ensuring the large-scale, global mainstreaming of more sustainable commodity production sought by MSI practitioners.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwellen_US
dc.relation.ispartofDevelopment and Changeen_US
dc.subjectValue Chainsen_US
dc.subjectIntermediariesen_US
dc.subjectMulti-stakeholder initiative (MSI)en_US
dc.titleGlobal value chains and intermediaries in multi-stakeholder initiatives in Pakistan and Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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