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… between the economies of the GN and GS. This has been due to the difficulty in establishing international hard-law and the flexibility and dynamism offered within soft-law (Kirton & Trebilcock, 2016). These features of soft-law are important when tackling sustainable development challenges. This is due to sustainability challenges evolving over time, which can lead to changing contexts that may make a certain form of governance unviable. Systems of governance have been used in an attempt … within a state, hard-law regulation could still be useful to help promote sustainable practices and improve the conditions of workers who live and work within the legal boundaries of the state. Also, hard-law systems offer a level of authority and legitimacy that soft-law systems do not have due to their voluntary nature. Academic literature has postulated that weaknesses within certain soft- 19 law systems, such as forms of collaborative and network governance, can be due to them missing the … Union Hand-Roasted Coffee co-director Steven Macatonia discusses the learning benefits of direct trade (Macatonia, 2013). Macatonia claims that his company provides technical training to coffee farmers within Guatemala, stating that the organise “workshop training in Guatemala that will train farmers to evaluate their coffees and not just to remove defects but to select for complex sensory attributes” (Macatonia, 2013) thereby improving the quality of the coffee and the quality of the producer. The …