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Article

15 Mar 2013

Author:
Food & Agriculture Organization, Intl. Trade Centre, UN Conference on Trade & Development, UN Environment Programme, UN Industrial Development Organization

UNCTAD -United Nations Conference on Trade and De: Forum to discuss voluntary sustainability standards that increasingly affect developing-country exports

[L]abelling of coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, fish, timber or flowers as "sustainable" under various voluntary certification programmes is among the key challenges facing agrofood-exporting developing countries that are to be discussed at a new United Nations Forum that debuts on 21 and 22 March...So-called voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), also termed private standards, claim to improve the health, occupational safety, economic, social, environmental, or animal-welfare conditions under which products are made…