Description
Recent governance and regulation scholarship emphasizes the need to investigate the interaction between public and private regulatory mechanisms to understand the outcomes of private-led supply chain compliance programs. These studies map the different forms through which these mechanisms interact but paint a static picture of the role of public regulatory structures in the process, referring to them as frameworks that are reinforced, crowded out, or have their gaps filled in by private compliance initiatives. These approaches overlook cases where government agents play active roles in shaping these private regulatory initiatives, using them as laboratories for policy innovation and reform. The present article addresses this gap through an investigation of the Beef Supply Chain Zero Deforestation Commitment, a multistakeholder initiative led by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, Greenpeace, and the largest meatpacking industries in the Amazon region in Brazil. The study is based on a case study on the implementation of zero-deforestation standards by one medium-sized slaughterhouse in Pará state, with a focus on how industry and local producers interact with regulatory policies to inform sourcing and production practices. The analysis describes how local actors have worked with, or around, the new standards across very different policy contexts determined by changes in the federal government during the 2010 decade. Based on our findings, we discuss the implications of the active participation of governmental agencies in private-led supply chain compliance programs, highlighting the contributions, pitfalls, and tradeoffs of such protagonism for the strengthening of environmental regulation in a critical region of the globe.| Period | 28 Jun 2024 |
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| Event title | SASE 36th Annual Conference 2024: For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics, and Technologies of Neoliberalism |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 36 |
| Location | Limerick, IrelandShow on map |