Topic
The limits of standards-based change
Certification schemes such as RSPO and MSPO verify conditions at a point in time, at a cost that excludes the smallholders who most need support. They create as many barriers as they remove. The research asks what a genuinely inclusive system would require.
Certification is the dominant answer to supply chain sustainability, and the most under-examined. A standard is a filter, and every filter decides who gets through.
Collected here: the resource burden of certification, smallholder exclusion, and an audit model that reports on conditions eighteen months after they occurred.
Certification
A forensic look at why standards consistently fail to produce transformation. The resource burden, smallholder exclusion, and the audit model that tells you what was happening 18 months ago.
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