Sustainability Governance in agro-industrial global value chains: the case of biodiesel produced in Argentina and consumed in the European Union

Global capitalism is characterized by the growing transnationalization of social relations of production. This has led to a reorganization of economic processes, which increasingly tend to transcend the borders of nation-states. Within this context, the governance of sustainability becomes a very relevant research field to analyze the way in which global value chains (GVCs) define, transmit, coordinate and implement sustainability criteria. In this paper, we propose to examine the characteristics that the governance of sustainability acquires in the case of the biodiesel GVC that has Argentina as a supplier and the EU as a consumer. This case study will allow us to empirically analyze the network of actors, organizations and institutions - both, public and private - that have converged in the construction of a concrete chain's transnational governance system.