Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research
Research areas
Trade, Global Value Chain analysis, Value Chain Development, Large scale agriculture and Labour, Labour management systems, Labour standards, Workers/trade union rights, Ethical trade, Anti-globalisation movement, alternative trade
Educational background
2005-2009:
PhD in International Development Studies at Roskilde University (also attached to the Danish Institute for International Studies). Thesis title: Labour Agency and Private Social Standards in the Cut Flower Industry.
1998 – 2003 :
Masters Degree in International Development and Geography at Roskilde University. Title of Dissertation: Labour rights and transnational companies in the banana sector in Latin America.
1994 – 1998 :
Bachelor in Science of Religion with a minor degree in Psychology from Copenhagen University
Professional Experience
2010 – 2012:
Employed in a Post doc. position at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). External lector at Roskilde University at International Development studies.
2010 - 2011:
Project leader on impact study commissioned by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation.
2010 – 2011:
Project leader on study commissioned by UNIDO and IFAD including coordinating case studies in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Indonesia and designing a ‘Pro-poor value chain development tool for practitioners’.
2010:
Project leader on study commissioned by the Danish Foreign Ministry on Gender and Value Chains.
2009:
Project leader on study commissioned by Traidcraft on “A comparison of voluntary standards’ impact on poverty: case studies of tea and coffee in East Africa”
2008:
Completion of the SA8000 auditor course
2008:
Researcher on study commissioned by the IDRC (managed by Overseas Development Institute) on “Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis: A Conceptual and Strategic Framework”
2007:
Researcher on study commissioned by the International Trade Secretariat on “The Economic Impact of a Ban on Imports of Air freighted Organic Products to the UK”
2006:
Research assistant on study commissioned by the Common Fund for Commodities on “Current Trends and New Development Role of Commodities
2004:
Consultant at the ILO Department for Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, Geneva
2003-2004:
Elaboration and overseeing of a regional development project for Central American workers in export production Zones
Publications
2011 “Pro-Poor Value Chain Development: 25 guiding questions for designing and implementing agroindustry projects” Riisgaard, L. and Ponte S. for United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria
2011 “A methodology for integrating developmental concerns into value chain analysis and interventions”. Bolwig, S., S. Ponte, L. Riisgaard, A. du Toit and N. Halberg. Chapter 2 in J. Mitchell and C. Coles (Eds.), Markets and rural poverty: upgrading in value chains. Oxon, NY: Earthscan, pp. 21-46
2011 “Towards More Stringent Sustainability Standards? Trends in the Cut Flower Industry” Review of African Political Economy. Vol. 38, no. 129, 2011, pp. 435-453
2011 “Competition, Best Practices’ and Exclusion in the Market for Social and Environmental Standards” Stefano Ponte and Lone Riisgaard in Stefano Ponte, Peter Gibbon & Jakob Vestergaard (eds.) Governing through Standards. Palgrave
2011 “Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains. Labour Standards in the Cut Flower and Banana Industries” Lone Riisgaard & Nikolaus Hammer. The British Journal of Industrial Relation 49 (1): 168-190
2010 “The political economy of private social standards in the cut flower industry” Lone Riisgaard In Peter Gibbon, Evelyne Lazaro & Stefano Ponte (eds.) Global Trade and Agro-food Standards: Challenges for Africa. Palgrave
2010 “Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis: A Strategic Framework and Practical Guide” Riisgaard, L., S. Bolwig, F. Matose, S. Ponte, A. du Toit & N. Halberg. Development Policy Review, 28 (2): 195-216
2010 “Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis: A Conceptual Framework” Bolwig, S., S. Ponte, A. du Toit, L. Riisgaard & N. Halberg. Development Policy Review, 28 (2): 173-94
2010 “Agro-Food Value Chain Interventions in Asia. A review and analysis of case studies” L.F. Henriksen, L. Riisgaard, S. Ponte, F. Hartwich and P. Kormawa. Working Paper. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Vienna, Austria.
2010 “Evaluation Study: Gender and Value Chain Development”. Lone Riisgaard, Anna Maria Fibola and Stefano Ponte. The Evaluation department of the Danish Foreign Ministry, May 2010
2009 “The Performance of Voluntary Standard Schemes from the Perspective of Small Producers in East Africa”. Riisgaard, L., Michuki, G., Gibbon, P. and Bolwig, S. Report produced for Traidcraft (UK)
2009 “Labour Agency and Private Social Standards in the Cut Flower Industry” PhD thesis. Institute for Development Studies, Roskilde University
2009 “How the market for standards shapes the market for goods: sustainability standards and value chain governance in the cut flower industry”. DIIS Working Paper 2009:07. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies
2009 “Global Value Chains, Labor Organization and Private Social Standards: Lessons from East African cut flower industries” World Development Vol. 37, No. 2. Elsevier, Montreal.
2008 “A Strategic Framework and Toolbox for Action Research with Small Producers in Value Chains” DIIS Working Paper 2008:17. Lone Riisgaard, Simon Bolwig, Frank Matose, Stefano Ponte, Andries du Toit & Niels Halberg
2008 “Organised Labour and the Social Regulation of Global Value Chains” DIIS Working Paper 2008:9. Lone Riisgaard & Nikolaus Hammer
2008 “Integrating Poverty, Gender and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis A Conceptual Framework and Lessons for Action Research” DIIS Working Paper 2008:16. Simon Bolwig, Stefano Ponte, Andries du Toit, Lone Riisgaard & Niels Halberg
2008 “Localizing Private Social Standards Standard Initiatives in Kenyan Cut Flowers” DIIS Working Paper 2008:20
2008 “Etiske standarder diskriminerer kvinder i udviklingslande” analysis published in Information 22. May.
2007 “What’s in it for labour? Private Social Standards in the Cut Flower industries of Kenya and Tanzania” DIIS Working Paper no 2007/16
2007 “The Economic Impact of a Ban on Imports of Air freighted Organic Products to the UK”. Consultancy report submitted to the International Trade Centre, Geneva. Written by Gibbon, P. and S. Bolwig, with Lone Riisgaard and Nina Grunth
2005 “International Framework Agreements: a new model for securing workers rights” Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 44(4) 707-737. Blackwell publishing, Boston & Oxford
2004 ”The IUF/COLSIBA – Chiquita framework agreement: a case study. ILO Working Paper No. 94. The International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 “A methodology for integrating developmental concerns into value chain analysis and interventions”. Bolwig, S., S. Ponte, L. Riisgaard, A. du Toit and N. Halberg. Chapter 2 in J. Mitchell and C. Coles (Eds.), Markets and rural poverty: upgrading in value chains. Oxon, NY: Earthscan, pp. 21-46
2011 “Towards More Stringent Sustainability Standards? Trends in the Cut Flower Industry” Review of African Political Economy. Vol. 38, no. 129, 2011, pp. 435-453
2011 “Competition, Best Practices’ and Exclusion in the Market for Social and Environmental Standards” Stefano Ponte and Lone Riisgaard in Stefano Ponte, Peter Gibbon & Jakob Vestergaard (eds.) Governing through Standards. Palgrave
2011 “Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains. Labour Standards in the Cut Flower and Banana Industries” Lone Riisgaard & Nikolaus Hammer. The British Journal of Industrial Relation 49 (1): 168-190
2010 “The political economy of private social standards in the cut flower industry” Lone Riisgaard In Peter Gibbon, Evelyne Lazaro & Stefano Ponte (eds.) Global Trade and Agro-food Standards: Challenges for Africa. Palgrave
2010 “Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis: A Strategic Framework and Practical Guide” Riisgaard, L., S. Bolwig, F. Matose, S. Ponte, A. du Toit & N. Halberg. Development Policy Review, 28 (2): 195-216
2010 “Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis: A Conceptual Framework” Bolwig, S., S. Ponte, A. du Toit, L. Riisgaard & N. Halberg. Development Policy Review, 28 (2): 173-94
2010 “Agro-Food Value Chain Interventions in Asia. A review and analysis of case studies” L.F. Henriksen, L. Riisgaard, S. Ponte, F. Hartwich and P. Kormawa. Working Paper. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Vienna, Austria.
2010 “Evaluation Study: Gender and Value Chain Development”. Lone Riisgaard, Anna Maria Fibola and Stefano Ponte. The Evaluation department of the Danish Foreign Ministry, May 2010
2009 “The Performance of Voluntary Standard Schemes from the Perspective of Small Producers in East Africa”. Riisgaard, L., Michuki, G., Gibbon, P. and Bolwig, S. Report produced for Traidcraft (UK)
2009 “Labour Agency and Private Social Standards in the Cut Flower Industry” PhD thesis. Institute for Development Studies, Roskilde University
2009 “How the market for standards shapes the market for goods: sustainability standards and value chain governance in the cut flower industry”. DIIS Working Paper 2009:07. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies
2009 “Global Value Chains, Labor Organization and Private Social Standards: Lessons from East African cut flower industries” World Development Vol. 37, No. 2. Elsevier, Montreal.
2008 “A Strategic Framework and Toolbox for Action Research with Small Producers in Value Chains” DIIS Working Paper 2008:17. Lone Riisgaard, Simon Bolwig, Frank Matose, Stefano Ponte, Andries du Toit & Niels Halberg
2008 “Organised Labour and the Social Regulation of Global Value Chains” DIIS Working Paper 2008:9. Lone Riisgaard & Nikolaus Hammer
2008 “Integrating Poverty, Gender and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis A Conceptual Framework and Lessons for Action Research” DIIS Working Paper 2008:16. Simon Bolwig, Stefano Ponte, Andries du Toit, Lone Riisgaard & Niels Halberg
2008 “Localizing Private Social Standards Standard Initiatives in Kenyan Cut Flowers” DIIS Working Paper 2008:20
2008 “Etiske standarder diskriminerer kvinder i udviklingslande” analysis published in Information 22. May.
2007 “What’s in it for labour? Private Social Standards in the Cut Flower industries of Kenya and Tanzania” DIIS Working Paper no 2007/16
2007 “The Economic Impact of a Ban on Imports of Air freighted Organic Products to the UK”. Consultancy report submitted to the International Trade Centre, Geneva. Written by Gibbon, P. and S. Bolwig, with Lone Riisgaard and Nina Grunth
2005 “International Framework Agreements: a new model for securing workers rights” Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 44(4) 707-737. Blackwell publishing, Boston & Oxford
2004 ”The IUF/COLSIBA – Chiquita framework agreement: a case study. ILO Working Paper No. 94. The International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
Keywords
- Economics, Politics
- Trade
- Global Value Chain analysis
- Value Chain Development
- Large scale agriculture and Labour
- Labour management systems
- Labour standards
- Workers/trade union rights
- Ethical trade
- anti-globalisation movement
- alternative trade
Publication network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Research Output
Multistakeholder initiatives in global production networks: naturalizing specific understandings of sustainability through the Better Cotton Initiative
Riisgaard, L., Lund-Thomsen, P. & Coe, N., 19 Jun 2019, In : Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. Early viewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Changing labour power on smallholder tea farms in Kenya
Riisgaard, L. & Okinda, O., 7 Jan 2018, In : Competition and Change. 22, 1, p. 41-62 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Bridging Global Standard Requirements and Local Farmer Needs: Implementing Partners of the Better Cotton Initiative in Pakistan and India
Lund-Thomsen, P., Coe, N., Sing, S. & Riisgaard, L., 6 Nov 2017, (Submitted) In : Development and Change.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Powers of the Mask: Political Subjectivation and Rites of Participation in Local-Global Protest
Riisgaard, L. & Thomassen, B., 13 Jul 2016, In : Theory, Culture & Society. 33, 6, p. 75-98 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Assessing the Impact of Fairtrade on Flower Plantations
Riisgaard, L., Lyall, A. & Okinda, O., 2015, (Accepted/In press) Bonn, Germany: Fairtrade International (FLO).Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
Projects
- 1 Active
Activities
SPIWORK writeshop
Nina Torm (Participant), & Lone Riisgaard (Participant)
23 Jan 2020 → 2 Feb 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Kisumu Policy Dialogue
Nina Torm (Participant), , Lone Riisgaard (Participant), & Winnie Mitullah (Participant)
17 Feb 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
SPIWORK internal team workshop
Nina Torm (Participant), & Lone Riisgaard (Participant)
1 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
5th Nordic Conference on Development Research
Nina Torm (Speaker), & Lone Riisgaard (Speaker)
27 Jun 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
SPIWORK project launch workshop
Nina Torm (Participant), & Lone Riisgaard (Participant)
9 Oct 2017 → 13 Oct 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press / Media
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22/02/2019
1 item of Media coverage
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