全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Standardizing sustainability: certification of Tanzanian biofuel smallholders in a global value chain.

G2TT

来源类型	Book Section
规范类型	其他
ISSN	9781409471349
	Standardizing sustainability: certification of Tanzanian biofuel smallholders in a global value chain.
	Romijn, Henny; Heijnen, Sanne; Arora, Saurabh
发表日期	2013-10
出版者	Ashgate
出版年	2013
页码	473-488
语种	英语
摘要	Standards and certifications, as ‘scientific’ instruments of governance, have recently emerged as ways to ensure environmental and ‘social’ sustainability of global value chains for renewable energy. Focussing on a chain for sourcing bio-kerosene, this chapter studies the practice of a pilot certification project aimed at thousands of Tanzanian smallholders who cultivate Jatropha oilseeds. We study the tense encounters between a ‘universal’ biofuel sustainability standard, designed in an ostensibly participatory process in the Netherlands, and the socio-ecological realities of the smallholders in Tanzania. In these implementation encounters, many provisions in the standard and certification protocols had to undergo modifications that were initially resisted by the standard’s designers. These modifications may have resulted in a standard that is more aligned with the local realities encountered in a particular region of Tanzania. But other frictions, similar and different from the ones discussed in this chapter, are bound to crop up as this ‘adjusted’ standard travels to newer localities. In concluding, we call for regional or niche standardization strategies, rejecting the idea of ‘universal’ globally-applicable standards. A niche standardization strategy is better poised for facilitating the smallholders to benefit from the sustainability of their existing practices, a sustainability they cannot afford to prove ‘scientifically’.
特色分类	H Social Sciences (General)
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48818/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468220
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Romijn, Henny,Heijnen, Sanne,Arora, Saurabh. Standardizing sustainability: certification of Tanzanian biofuel smallholders in a global value chain.. 2013.