虚假报告削弱供应链可持续性倡议的公信力

A field experiment among Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms suggests an approach to improve auditor reporting Federico Cammelli1,2, Johan Six1, Rachael D. Garrett2,3 A s companies increasingly rely on voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), especially certification programs, and payments for ecosystem services (PES) to support sustain- ability claims and comply with new regulations in global food and resource supply chains, there is an urgent need to understand their credibility. These tools depend on field-collected data to verify compliance, whether through field reports or geolocation information. Yet, much of this data is gathered on behalf of companies by actors, such as farmers’ cooperatives or local intermediaries, who, alongside producers, may stand to benefit from the appearance of com- pliance. …