Journal article
Mapping Value in a 'Green' Commodity Frontier: Revisiting Commodity Chain Analysis
B Neimark, S Mahanty, W Dressler
Development and Change | WILEY | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12226
Abstract
Analysis of commodity chains has provided important insights on how power, resource and market access mediate the distribution of benefits and risks. Given this analytical potential, Commodity Chain Analysis (CCA) is now being applied to the study of biofuels and carbon markets to gain systematic insight into the circumstances, relationships and transformations involved in their production and exchange. By building on and adapting this approach to three distinct case studies (biofuels in Madagascar and forest carbon in Cambodia and Laos), this article contributes new insights on the emergence of value within market environmentalism. The analysis highlights methodological challenges in applyi..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the four anonymous referees for their insightful comments and suggestions. In Madagascar, Tim Healy provided research assistance. Amanda Bradley and Sarah Milne contributed to the Cambodian study. The Australian Research Council supported the Lao and Cambodian research (DP120100270 - The Political Ecology of Forest Carbon: Mainland Southeast Asia's New Commodity Frontiers). The National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration funded the work on biofuels in Madagascar (9222-12 - The Human dimensions of Environmental Change and Biofuel Production). All errors and any misinterpretations are the responsibility of the authors alone.