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Participatory organic certification in Mexico: an alternative approach to maintaining the integrity of the organic label [Book Review]

Erin Nelson, Laura Gómez Tovar, Rita Schwentesius Rindermann & Manuel Ángel Gómez Cruz

Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2):227-237 (2010)

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Analyzing the implications of organic standardization and certification in alternative food networks: The capability approach.Felipe Alexandre de Lima, Daiane Mülling Neutzling, Stefan Seuring, Vikas Kumar & Marilia Bonzanini Bossle - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1547-1562.details Although organic standards and certification schemes have a crucial role in ensuring quality, safety, and sustainability within food systems, there is a need to critically analyze their implications on human capabilities within alternative food networks (AFNs). Therefore, this paper draws upon the capability approach to analyze the implications of three governance mechanisms (i.e., third-party, social control, and hybrid certification) on human flourishing within AFNs in Ceará, Brazil. The three cases primarily build on 66 interviews with farmers, consumers, AFN owners and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in Mexico: a theoretic ideal or everyday practice?Sonja Kaufmann & Christian R. Vogl - 2018 - Agriculture and Human Values 35 (2):457-472.details Third-party certification, the most common organic certification system, has faced growing criticism in recent years. This has led to the development of alternative certification systems, most of which can be classed as Participatory Guarantee Systems. PGS have been promoted as a more suitable, cheaper and less bureaucratic alternative to TPC for local markets and are associated with additional benefits such as empowering smallholder farmers, facilitating farmer-to-farmer learning and enhancing food security and sovereignty. PGS have spread rapidly in the past few (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Characterizing alternative food networks in China.Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas & Steffanie Scott - 2015 - Agriculture and Human Values 32 (2):299-313.details Amid the many food safety scandals that have erupted in recent years, Chinese food activists and consumers are turning to the creation of alternative food networks to ensure better control over their food. These Chinese AFNs have not been documented in the growing literature on food studies. Based on in-depth interviews and case studies, this paper documents and develops a typology of AFNs in China, including community supported agriculture, farmers’ markets, buying clubs, and recreational garden plot rentals. We unpacked the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
Building the local food movement in Chiapas, Mexico: rationales, benefits, and limitations.Laurel Bellante - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (1):119-134.details Alternative food networks have become a common response to the socio-ecological injustices generated by the industrialized food system. Using a political ecology framework, this paper evaluates the emergence of an AFN in Chiapas, Mexico. While the Mexican context presents a particular set of challenges, the case study also reveals the strength the alternative food movement derives from a diverse network of actors committed to building a “community economy” that reasserts the multifunctional values of organic agriculture and local commodity chains. Nonetheless, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Participatory guarantee systems and the re-imagining of Mexico’s organic sector.Erin Nelson, Laura Gómez Tovar, Elodie Gueguen, Sally Humphries, Karen Landman & Rita Schwentesius Rindermann - 2016 - Agriculture and Human Values 33 (2):373-388.details Although it is the most widely accepted form of organic guarantee, third party certification can be inaccessible for small-scale producers and promotes a highly market-oriented vision of organics. By contrast, participatory guarantee systems are based on principles of relationship-building, mutual learning, trust, context-specificity, local control, diversity, and collective action. This paper uses the case study of the Mexican Network of Local Organic Markets to explore how PGS can be used to support a more alternative vision of organics, grounded in the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations

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