Abstract
The title of this chapter is “Cui bono: Who Stands to Gain?”. In the context of certification, the answer is “all participants in the value and supply chain”. However, currently not all do. If this outcome is to be achieved then a new approach within current systems is required, particularly for smallholder tree-farmers.
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Data accessed at http://info.fsc.org/certificate.php#result and updated to July 2016.
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Personal communication from a closely associated person to the authors.
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For more details see https://au.fsc.org/en-au/newsroom/technical-news/id/318, last accessed 31 January 2019.
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Flanagan, A.C., Stevens, P.R., Midgley, S.J. (2019). Cui bono: Who Stands to Gain? Certification for Smallholder Tree-Farmers in Southeast Asia. In: Schmidt, M., Giovannucci, D., Palekhov, D., Hansmann, B. (eds) Sustainable Global Value Chains. Natural Resource Management in Transition, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14877-9_33
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