Standardizers. The new private bureaucracy that controls the quality and food safety in global agricultural vale chains
Title (trans.)
Estandarizadores. La nueva burocracia privada que controla la calidad y la seguridad alimentaria en las cadenas globales agrícolasEntity
UAM. Departamento de SociologíaPublisher
Federación Española de SociologíaDate
2021-01-21Citation
10.22325/FES/RES.2021.16
Revista Española de Sociología 30.1 (2021): 1-21
ISSN
1578-2824 (print); 2445-0367 (online)DOI
10.22325/FES/RES.2021.16Funded by
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y Fondos FEDER de la Unión Europea (CSO2017-85507-P)Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.22325/FES/RES.2021.16Subjects
Food quality and safety; Global agri-food chains; Governance; Neoliberal bureaucratization; Standards; SociologíaRights
© Revista Española de SociologíaAbstract
Global agri-food production is structured in chains controlled by big retailers. Private standards have become one of the most important forms of governance. Our objective is to analyze the institutional structure from which the quality and safety requirements and evaluation procedures are designed. Our hypothesis is that the power of big retailers increases thanks to the control of this institutional structure, which is called the Tripartite Standards Regime (Loconto and Busch, 2010). For this, this paper will analyze the private standards that predominate in one of the most important fruit and vegetable exporting regions in Europe, the Region of Murcia. It shows 3 characteristics of the Tripartite Regime of private standards of big retailers (Global GAP, IFS, BRC): hybridization of public and private in the field of regulation; bureaucratization through expert professionals, expertise and procedures from private actors; and control of large distributors over the entire standardization process
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Gadea, Elena
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Sánchez, Miguel Ángel
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