A number of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) and commodity roundtables have been created since the 1990s to respond to the growing criticism of agriculture’s environmental and social impacts. Driven by private and global-scale actors, these initiatives are setting global standards for...

Since the beginning of the new millennium, initiatives known as roundtables have been developed to create voluntary sustainability standards for agricultural commodities. Intended to be private and voluntary in nature, these initiatives claim their legitimacy from their ability to ensure the...

L'artisanat alimentaire urbain occupe une place importante dans l'approvisionnement des villes africaines. Cela dit, la mise en marché de produits typiques reposant sur des savoirs contextualisés rencontre une suspicion de la part des consommateurs urbains. Des pratiques d'approvisionnement...