A Fair Trade Approach to Community Forest Certification? A Framework for Discussion

Autor/in	Taylor, Peter Leigh
Titel	A Fair Trade Approach to Community Forest Certification? A Framework for Discussion
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 21 (2005) 4, S.433-447 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.08.002
Schlagwörter	Certification; Forestry; Global Approach; Consumer Economics; Comparative Analysis; Community Control + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Globales Denken; Konsumökonomie
Abstract	Forest certification has gained growing attention as a market-based instrument to make globalizing markets a force for mitigating rather than fostering environmental degradation. Yet in practice, market mechanisms currently appear to encourage concentration of forest certification in Northern temperate and boreal forests, rather than in the tropical forests certification originally aimed to protect. At the same time, the share of tropical and other Southern forests under community management is increasing dramatically. Utilizing a comparative analysis of coffee and wood products commodity chains, a preliminary framework is proposed for exploring the obstacles and the possibilities of a ''Fair Trade'' approach to community forest certification. Obstacles include the structure of conventional wood products commodity chains, common wood product characteristics, certification's current commitment to conventional market logics and practices, and informal governance influences favoring powerful economic actors. The paper argues, however, that other features of forest certification, especially in the FSC scheme, are potentially supportive of a Fair Trade community forestry approach. (Author).
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