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1st September 2015
New publication on the impact of RSPO certification on smallholders' livelihoods
Nia Hidayat together with Pieter Glasbergen and Astrid Offermans wrote an article about the potential of certifications to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers. To achieve this objective they developed an amended livelihood framework applied to an exploratory study of Indonesian...
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10th August 2015
New article on the transformative capacity of global private sustainability standards
Pieter Glasbergen and Greetje Schouten published a new article in The Journal of Corporate Citizenship about uncertainties regarding the transformative capacity of private sustainability standards. The paper discusses three plausible scenarios for the future of governance in the field of...
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29th June 2015
Laura Kurth in a documentary on halal food
Laura Kurth was interviewed for a documentary on Halal food that was broadcasted by Dutch TV on the 28th of June 2015. The European market for halal food is growing, but complex and globalized production chains make it difficult for Muslims to determine whether their food is halal-worthy....
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12th May 2015
New publication on farmer preferences regarding certification
Muhammad Ibnu wrote an article (together with Pieter Glasbergen, Astrid Offermans and Bustanul Arifin) about Indonesian farmer preferences regarding coffee certification. The article questions whether Northern-driven standards correspond to the preferences of coffee farmers in the South....
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21st April 2015
Prof. Glasbergen lectured at University of Vilnius
Pieter Glasbergen was invited to give a lecture on sustainability and partnerships at the University of Vilnius, in Lithuania. Based on this lecture, he was also asked for an interview for a Lithuanian newspaper. The interview touched upon the concept of sustainable development, its vagueness that...
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