Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent

Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains

Private Agri-food Standards: Contestation, Hybridity and the Politics of Standards

standards are an omnipresent yet generally taken-for-granted part of our everyday life (higgins and larner, 2010a; timmermans and epstein, 2010; Busch, 2011). until recently, standards within the agri-food sector were typically dismissed (if thought of at all) by social scientists as rather benign, technical tools, primarily of interest to specialists concerned with facilitating markets and tra...

eXtra Botany FOOD SECURITY Food standards: the cacophony of governance

Although long distance trade in food goes back at least as far as Columbus, the recent wave of food globalization is unprecedented in human history. But despite the existence of the Codex Alimentarius, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Trade Organization, there is no central authority that governs the many facets of food. Instead, we have arrived at a food network that is gov...

Continuous evaluation of midwives as to professional standards

Introduction: Implementation of professional standards as well as evaluation and assessments of providers has an important role in health promotion of each society. The purpose of this study was to assess the midwives working at midwifery offices as to performance of professional standards and effectiveness of continuous evaluation and education on them. Methods: This is an interventional study...

Gateways - just as important as standards

This article presents the (hi)story about the Nordunet project and its " plug. " This is a (hi)story about how the Internet " won " the " religious war " about computer communication protocol standards in Scandinavia. This history teaches us important lessons about how the Nordic countries (except Denmark) became the leading ones in the adoption and use of the Internet. On a more general level ...