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Do companies care about sustainable land governance? An empirical assessment of company land policies
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology ( IF 5.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-13 , DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2019.1701582
C. J. Stevens 1 , A. Greif 2 , D. Bouma 3
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Land investments and global commodity supply chains contribute to food insecurity, deforestation, climate change, and conflict. As a result, donor governments, NGOs, international organizations, and other stakeholders have pushed companies to voluntarily adopt responsible land policies to promote sustainable land use and development. Yet, no study has empirically assessed companies’ normative commitments on land governance. This paper uses logistic and ordinary least squares regression models to analyze a newly created dataset of 1059 companies to determine under what conditions companies are more likely to have land policies, expansively defined as a binding or aspirational commitment to land governance, whether a stand-alone land policy or a normative statement embedded within another policy-oriented document. We find that 91.5% of the 1059 companies reviewed have no land policy but that, surprisingly, given media attention focused on retailers, producers are more likely to adopt land policies. Moreover, publicly traded companies are the most likely to adopt land policies. We posit these results are due to the higher tenure security risks faced by producers, and the greater public scrutiny placed on publicly traded companies. These results suggest that resources allocated to convincing publicly traded producers to adopt land policies to mitigate risks will initially be the most fruitful. Private companies could then be called upon to follow their lead.



中文翻译:

公司是否关心可持续土地治理?公司土地政策的实证评估

土地投资和全球商品供应链加剧了粮食不安全,森林砍伐,气候变化和冲突。结果,捐助国政府,非政府组织,国际组织和其他利益相关者推动公司自愿采用负责任的土地政策,以促进土地的可持续利用和发展。然而,尚无研究从经验上评估公司在土地治理方面的规范性承诺。本文使用逻辑和普通最小二乘回归模型分析了一个新创建的1059家公司的数据集,以确定公司在何种条件下更可能拥有土地政策(广泛定义为对土地治理具有约束力或理想的承诺),无论是独立的还是独立的土地政策或包含在另一个面向政策的文档中的规范性声明。我们找到91。在接受审查的1059家公司中,有5%没有土地政策,但是令人惊讶的是,鉴于媒体将注意力集中在零售商上,生产商更可能采用土地政策。此外,上市公司最有可能采用土地政策。我们认为,这些结果是由于生产者面临的土地使用权安全风险较高,以及对上市公司的公众监督程度更高。这些结果表明,分配用于说服公共生产者采取土地政策以减轻风险的资源最初将是最富有成果的。然后可以要求私人公司跟随他们的领导。上市公司最有可能采用土地政策。我们认为,这些结果是由于生产者面临的土地使用权安全风险较高,以及对上市公司的公众监督程度更高。这些结果表明,分配用于说服公共生产者采取土地政策以减轻风险的资源最初将是最富有成果的。然后可以要求私人公司跟随他们的领导。上市公司最有可能采用土地政策。我们认为,这些结果是由于生产者面临的土地使用权安全风险较高,以及对上市公司的公众监督程度更高。这些结果表明,分配用于说服公共生产者采取土地政策以减轻风险的资源最初将是最富有成果的。然后可以要求私人公司跟随他们的领导。

更新日期:2019-12-13
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