Today I was reading and thinking about CSR and certification schemes. Suddenly, one question came to my mind: what kind of certification mechanism is closer to the idea I have of ethics in agricultural productive contexts?
The ideas of ethic I was actually thinking are two: 1) no workers (or worst, immigrant workers) exploitation along the supply chain and 2) a fair remuneration of the "weakest" rings of the supply chain (generally the producers, but not just them).
About the 2nd it could be discussed who are the weakest and what makes them weak. About the first, I imagine it is easy to find objective indicators.
In extreme summary, a farm or a company going ethically should have an ethical manifesto and join certification and initiatives, generally voluntary, that could witness for its ethical profile, better if networking with oher stakeholders playing ethical according to their objectives. Compliance with existing certification protocols or with new ones could work as proof of a fair play.
But, would'nt be more effective , for the previously showed ideas of ethics, a self-certification mechanism by the whole networking supply chain?
I am referring to a system of supervisors where everybody has an incentive to not disobey a set of few and shared ethical rules.
Is to say a system were the auditors are (elected) part of the supply chain being so both auditors and controlled. Everyone controls everyone, and everybody find an incentive in applying this mechanism so that it is not oppressive. The incentive should be higher revenues, fairly distributed.
I think that this kind of mechanism 1) is more difficult to cheat, especially by the strongest part of the supply chain that could be interested in having an "ethical label" just to market more 2) since it is implemented by the same supply chain actors (and not by an external auditor) it implies a concrete "ethical growth" of the firms participating.
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