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Shared labels: Selling stories that conserve biocultural diversity and promote resilience

This report provides a collection and analysis of six case studies which introduce trailblazing shared label initiatives by smallholder organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each case study explores the motivation for collective marketing action, the choice of claims to make through a shared label, the control over the standards behind the claims, and the importance of context for outcomes. The lessons learnt from these cases provide a robust resource for smallholder organisations, forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) and their support structures in their efforts to give market value to product diversity, sociocultural origin and environmental sustainability. This report also shows that the ecological, economic and sociocultural advantages of shared label approaches are manifold and do not only benefit the producers themselves, but also consumers, the wider general public and the planet as a whole.

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Publisher: International Institute for Environment and Development
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Organization: International Institute for Environment and Development
Other organizations: Forest and Farm Facility
Year: 2022
ISBN: 9781784319939
Country/ies: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Ecuador, Indonesia, Nepal, Viet Nam, Zambia
Geographical coverage: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean
Type: Report
Full text available at: https://pubs.iied.org/21111iied
Content language: English
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