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Responsibility to the rescue? Governing private financial investment in global agriculture

dc.contributor.authorClapp, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-20T19:14:28Z
dc.date.available2017-03-20T19:14:28Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.descriptionThe final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9678-8en
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the recent rise of initiatives for responsible agricultural investment and provides a preliminary assessment of their likely success in curbing the ecological and social costs associated with the growth in private financial investment in the sector over the past decade. I argue that voluntary responsible investment initiatives for agriculture are likely to face similar weaknesses to those experienced in responsible investment initiatives more generally. These include vague and difficult to enforce guidelines, low participation rates, an uneven business case, and confusion arising from multiple and competing initiatives. In addition, the large diversity of investors and high degree of complexity of financial investments further complicate efforts to discern who bears the burden of responsibility in practice. As a result, there is a strong likelihood that voluntary governance initiatives for responsible agricultural investment will shift discourse more than they will change practice.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Trudeau Foundation || Social Sciences and Humanities Research Councilen
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9678-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/11546
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.subjectFinanceen
dc.subjectInvestmenten
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectFooden
dc.subjectVoluntary initiativesen
dc.subject.lcshfinanceen
dc.subject.lcshinvestmentsen
dc.subject.lcshagricultureen
dc.titleResponsibility to the rescue? Governing private financial investment in global agricultureen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationClapp, J. (2017). Responsibility to the rescue? Governing private financial investment in global agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values, 34(1), 223–235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9678-8en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Environmenten
uws.contributor.affiliation2School of Environment, Resources and Sustainabilityen
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
uws.scholarLevelFacultyen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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