Global governance of agro-food production and value chains - Otto Hospes

Considering these partnerships as new rule-setting authorities to define sustainability, Otto studies how these partnerships interact (compete, collaborate, etc.) with public authorities at the national level. For this purpose he uses and develops several approaches and concepts that form an integral part of the PAP research program, like politics of scale, network governance and the cunning state. As a coordinator of the INREF SUSPENSE research program on sustainable pathways for the production, processing and governance of palm oil in Indonesia and Thailand, he also contributes to theoretical and empirical research on how flows of ideas and rules govern flows of commodities.