August 2023
Trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards in tropical commodity sectors: A nuanced story
Sustainable food production remains a key challenge in our globalized…
The trade effects of VSS remain unclear as empirical evidence is scarce, case-specific – either focusing on a single standard, a single product, and/or a single country – and biased towards business-to-business VSS and the fresh produce sector. The authors investigate how the adoption of seven VSS in five tropical commodity sectors affects the export performance of producing countries.