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The paper examines the main economic and institutional incentives which have driven major OECD food retailers in their use of private voluntary standards and discusses their growing role in shaping the agri-food system. It is based on interviews with quality and safety directors of major OECD retailers and a brief survey of retailers' actual buyer practices. Though not all retailers are included, these Wrms account for over 70% of retail food sales in OECD countries. We Wnd that the growing voice of civil society, changing legal and institutional frameworks, increased market concentration and buying power as well as their integration with Wnancial markets has provided the setting for development of private standards. While food safety and quality standards are seen as key to maintaining and improving reputation as well as against legal liabilities, additional standards such as labour, environmental and animal welfare are also gaining ground as strategies for customer loyalty and market shares. The grass-roots retailer move in the harmonization of food safety standards is seen as an initial step towards a global approach to managing the food system, with harmonization of other stand

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Author

Linda Fulponi

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0306-9192)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)