Janina
Grabs
Postdoctoral Researcher
ETH Zurich
Sonneggstr. 33
Office F5
8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Janina Grabs holds a PhD in Political Science and is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich’s Environmental Policy Lab. Her work focuses on the private governance of sustainability in global agricultural value chains, with a special focus on tropical commodities such as coffee and palm oil. She also works on public-private governance interactions in the Global South. Her book “Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector” came out in 2020 with Cambridge University Press. Currently, she examines the evolution, effectiveness, and equity of deforestation governance in the palm oil sector.