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Graeme Auld - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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work ties beget Community assessing interactions among transnational private governance organizations in sustainable agriculture
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2016Co-Authors: Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Graeme AuldAbstract:Transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) set standards for various sustainability issues and industries. TPGOs individually address only facets of larger problems such as land conversion, and competition among TPGOs also affects TPGO governance, meaning coordination across their activities can be required. Studies have shown that ties between TPGOs and other organizations facilitate information sharing, coordination and socialization. A systematic analysis of the structure of such ties, however, is lacking. Using the employment ties of staff and governors, we analyse the inter-organizational communities of TPGOs that focus on agriculture. Our findings cast doubt on the existence of a coherent Community of sustainable agricultural TPGOs: very few communities involve multiple TPGOs. While TPGOs with a similar product focus may form links with similar organizations, there are few direct and indirect ties among TPGOs. Researchers should therefore be cautious about assuming that a TPGO Policy Community crossing organizational and Policy divides currently exists.
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work ties beget Community assessing interactions among transnational private governance organizations in sustainable agriculture
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Graeme AuldAbstract:Transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) set standards for various sustainability issues and industries. TPGOs individually address only facets of larger problems such as land conversion, and competition among TPGOs also affects TPGO governance, meaning coordination across their activities can be required. Studies argue that ties between TPGOs and other organizations facilitate information sharing, coordination, and socialization. A systematic analysis of the structure of such ties however is lacking. Using the employment ties of staff and governors, we analyse the inter-organizational communities of TPGOs focused on agriculture. Our findings cast doubt on the existence of a coherent Community of sustainable agriculture TPGOs: very few communities involve multiple TPGOs. While TPGOs with a similar product focus may link to similar organizations, there are few direct and indirect ties among TPGOs. Researchers should therefore be cautious to assume that a TPGO Policy Community crossing organizational and Policy divides currently exists.
Luc Fransen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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work ties beget Community assessing interactions among transnational private governance organizations in sustainable agriculture
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2016Co-Authors: Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Graeme AuldAbstract:Transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) set standards for various sustainability issues and industries. TPGOs individually address only facets of larger problems such as land conversion, and competition among TPGOs also affects TPGO governance, meaning coordination across their activities can be required. Studies have shown that ties between TPGOs and other organizations facilitate information sharing, coordination and socialization. A systematic analysis of the structure of such ties, however, is lacking. Using the employment ties of staff and governors, we analyse the inter-organizational communities of TPGOs that focus on agriculture. Our findings cast doubt on the existence of a coherent Community of sustainable agricultural TPGOs: very few communities involve multiple TPGOs. While TPGOs with a similar product focus may form links with similar organizations, there are few direct and indirect ties among TPGOs. Researchers should therefore be cautious about assuming that a TPGO Policy Community crossing organizational and Policy divides currently exists.
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work ties beget Community assessing interactions among transnational private governance organizations in sustainable agriculture
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Graeme AuldAbstract:Transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) set standards for various sustainability issues and industries. TPGOs individually address only facets of larger problems such as land conversion, and competition among TPGOs also affects TPGO governance, meaning coordination across their activities can be required. Studies argue that ties between TPGOs and other organizations facilitate information sharing, coordination, and socialization. A systematic analysis of the structure of such ties however is lacking. Using the employment ties of staff and governors, we analyse the inter-organizational communities of TPGOs focused on agriculture. Our findings cast doubt on the existence of a coherent Community of sustainable agriculture TPGOs: very few communities involve multiple TPGOs. While TPGOs with a similar product focus may link to similar organizations, there are few direct and indirect ties among TPGOs. Researchers should therefore be cautious to assume that a TPGO Policy Community crossing organizational and Policy divides currently exists.
Jelmer Schalk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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work ties beget Community assessing interactions among transnational private governance organizations in sustainable agriculture
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2016Co-Authors: Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Graeme AuldAbstract:Transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) set standards for various sustainability issues and industries. TPGOs individually address only facets of larger problems such as land conversion, and competition among TPGOs also affects TPGO governance, meaning coordination across their activities can be required. Studies have shown that ties between TPGOs and other organizations facilitate information sharing, coordination and socialization. A systematic analysis of the structure of such ties, however, is lacking. Using the employment ties of staff and governors, we analyse the inter-organizational communities of TPGOs that focus on agriculture. Our findings cast doubt on the existence of a coherent Community of sustainable agricultural TPGOs: very few communities involve multiple TPGOs. While TPGOs with a similar product focus may form links with similar organizations, there are few direct and indirect ties among TPGOs. Researchers should therefore be cautious about assuming that a TPGO Policy Community crossing organizational and Policy divides currently exists.
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work ties beget Community assessing interactions among transnational private governance organizations in sustainable agriculture
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Graeme AuldAbstract:Transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) set standards for various sustainability issues and industries. TPGOs individually address only facets of larger problems such as land conversion, and competition among TPGOs also affects TPGO governance, meaning coordination across their activities can be required. Studies argue that ties between TPGOs and other organizations facilitate information sharing, coordination, and socialization. A systematic analysis of the structure of such ties however is lacking. Using the employment ties of staff and governors, we analyse the inter-organizational communities of TPGOs focused on agriculture. Our findings cast doubt on the existence of a coherent Community of sustainable agriculture TPGOs: very few communities involve multiple TPGOs. While TPGOs with a similar product focus may link to similar organizations, there are few direct and indirect ties among TPGOs. Researchers should therefore be cautious to assume that a TPGO Policy Community crossing organizational and Policy divides currently exists.
Wolfgang Stojetz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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food security and conflict empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and Policy making on food security and conflict
World Development, 2019Co-Authors: Charles Martinshields, Wolfgang StojetzAbstract:Abstract During the previous decade, there has been an increased focus on the role of food security in processes of armed conflict, both in the academic and Policy communities. While the Policy Community has pushed forward with new programs, the academic debate about the causal linkages between food security and conflict remains contested. This article examines the endogeneity that characterizes the coupling between food (in)security and conflict and makes three contributions. First, we define conflict and food security using the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the FAO databases, and illustrate how intervening factors influence the relationship between conflict and food security at the micro and macro levels. Second, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the linkages between food security and conflict, focusing on findings that account for endogeneity issues and have a causal interpretation. Third, we highlight key data issues related to conflict and food security, and chart ways forward to collect new and better data that can help to fill existing academic gaps and support Policymaking.
Michael R Reich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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measuring political commitment and opportunities to advance food and nutrition security piloting a rapid assessment tool
Health Policy and Planning, 2015Co-Authors: Ashley M Fox, Yarlini Balarajan, Chloe Cheng, Michael R ReichAbstract:Lack of political commitment has been identified as a primary reason for the low priority that food and nutrition interventions receive from national governments relative to the high disease burden caused by malnutrition. Researchers have identified a number of factors that contribute to food and nutrition's 'low-priority cycle' on national Policy agendas, but few tools exist to rapidly measure political commitment and identify opportunities to advance food and nutrition on the Policy agenda. This article presents a theory-based rapid assessment approach to gauging countries' level of political commitment to food and nutrition security and identifying opportunities to advance food and nutrition on the Policy agenda. The rapid assessment tool was piloted among food and nutrition Policymakers and planners in 10 low- and middle-income countries in April to June 2013. Food and nutrition commitment and Policy opportunity scores were calculated for each country and strategies to advance food and nutrition on Policy agendas were designed for each country. The article finds that, in a majority of countries, political leaders had verbally and symbolically committed to addressing food and nutrition, but adequate financial resources were not allocated to implement specific programmes. In addition, whereas the low cohesion of the Policy Community has been viewed a major underlying cause of the low-priority status of food and nutrition, the analysis finds that Policy Community cohesion and having a well thought-out Policy alternative were present in most countries. This tool may be useful to Policymakers and planners providing information that can be used to benchmark and/or evaluate advocacy efforts to advance reforms in the food and nutrition sector; furthermore, the results can help identify specific strategies that can be employed to move the food and nutrition agenda forward. This tool complements others that have been recently developed to measure national commitment to advancing food and nutrition security.
