A tripartite standards regime analysis of the contested development of a sustainable agriculture standard |
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| Authors: | Maki Hatanaka Jason Konefal Douglas H Constance |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Sam Houston State University, Box 2446, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA |
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| Abstract: | As concerns over the negative social and environmental impacts of industrial agriculture become more widespread, efforts to
define and regulate sustainable agriculture have proliferated in the US. Whereas the USDA spearheaded previous efforts, today
such efforts have largely shifted to Tripartite Standards Regimes (TSRs). Using a case study of the Leonardo Academy’s initiative
to develop a US sustainable agriculture standard, this paper examines the standards-development process and efforts by agribusiness
to influence the process. Specifically, we analyze how politics operate in seemingly “depoliticized” TSRs, and how agribusiness
and the USDA use “framing practices” and procedural complaints to influence the standard-development process. We contend that
although governance mechanisms are a potentially powerful tool for advocates of alternative agrifood, their efficacy may be
constrained by science-based requirements, an agribusiness countermovement, and a captured state. |
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