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Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Gibbon, Peter; Ponte, Stefano; Lazaro, Evelyne

DOI: 10.1057/9780230281356

ISBN: 978-1-349-36814-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 24, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Agro-Food Standards and Africa: An Introduction

Gibbon, Peter; Lazaro, Evelyne

Pages: 1 –20

[Governing through standards — rather than through laws and regulations alone — emerged as a tendency in industrialized countries in the 1980s and 1990s. This occurred against a background of the rise of idealized market paradigms in the public sector, an unfolding of new discourses concerning...
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Product Carbon Footprint Standards and Schemes

Bolwig, Simon; Gibbon, Peter

Pages: 21 –42

[Concern over climate change has stimulated interest in estimating the total amount of greenhouse gasses (GHG) produced during the different stages in the ‘life-cycle’ of goods and services — that is their production, processing, transportation, sale, use and disposal (Brenton et al., 2008;...
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Institutional Capacity for Food Safety Conformity in Tanzania

Akyoo, Adam; Lazaro, Evelyne

Pages: 43 –69

[Safety standards imposed by importing countries are escalating to the extent that they may constitute non-tariff barriers to trade (Antle, 1999; Hoekman and Kostecki, 2001; Mitchell, 2003; Athukorala and Jayasuriya, 2004). The barrier effect is either related to high costs associated with...
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An Analysis of Organic Contract Farming Schemes in East Africa

Gibbon, Peter; Akyoo, Adam; Bolwig, Simon; Jones, Sam; Lin, Yumiao; Rants, Louise Lund

Pages: 70 –100

[As noted in a number of chapters in this volume, recent years have seen a substantial increase in African smallholder production to ‘sustainability’ standards. This reflects the dynamic growth of Northern markets for products certified to these standards and, in turn, the premium prices that...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Organic Agriculture in Tanzania

Mbiha, Emmanuel R.; Ashimogo, Gasper C.

Pages: 101 –119

[This chapter provides an account of challenges and opportunities of organic agriculture in Tanzania. A brief introduction on organic agriculture’s setting and its development in Tanzania is followed by a more detailed review of the development of the country’s organic production, processing and...
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Sustainability Standards and Agro-Food Exports from East Africa

Lazaro, Evelyne; Riisgaard, Lone; Kilima, Fredy; Makindara, Jeremiah; Mnenwa, Raymond

Pages: 120 –135

[This chapter deals with private sustainability standards and their application in the agro-food export sector in East Africa. It covers three firm or industry-level case studies: (1) Arabica coffee plantation production to the UTZ CERTIFIED standard in Tanzania; (2) GlobalGAP-certified...
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Localizing Private Social Standards: Standard Initiatives in Kenyan Cut Flowers

Riisgaard, Lone

Pages: 136 –161

[As a response to the emergence of Northern-based social standards in the cut flower export industry, a range of Southern social standard initiatives have emerged. In this chapter, I analyse two Kenyan standard initiatives in the cut flower sector — a business initiative and a multi-stakeholder...
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Food Safety Standards and Fishery Livelihoods in East Africa

Kadigi, Reuben M. J.; Mdoe, Ntengua S. Y.; Senkondo, Ephraim; Mpenda, Zena

Pages: 162 –183

[The export fishery industry in East Africa has experienced a number of important challenges over the past two decades, most dramatically those associated with the new generation of food safety standards imposed by Northern countries.l Closely associated with this has been the challenge of...
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When the Market Helps: Standards, Ecolabels and Resource Management Systems in East African Export Fisheries

Ponte, Stefano; Kadigi, Reuben M. J.; Mitullah, Winnie

Pages: 184 –204

[This chapter examines the role that standards and management practices play in maintaining a rewarding and sustainable export fish industry in East Africa. It does so by analysing two separate but interconnected mechanisms: (a) how the industry matches food safety standards set by the EU; and...
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European Food Safety Regulation and Developing Countries’ Regulatory Problems and Possibilities

Broberg, Morten

Pages: 205 –231

[A large number of developing countries are highly dependent upon exports of agricultural products and for many of these countries the European Union is the primary export market. For decades, however, the EU’s market for agricultural products was protected by high tariff barriers. These barriers...

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