Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Agro-Food Standards and Africa: An Introduction

   • Peter Gibbon, Evelyne Lazaro

   Pages 1-20

3. Product Carbon Footprint Standards and Schemes

   • Simon Bolwig, Peter Gibbon

   Pages 21-42

4. Institutional Capacity for Food Safety Conformity in Tanzania

   • Adam Akyoo, Evelyne Lazaro

   Pages 43-69

5. An Analysis of Organic Contract Farming Schemes in East Africa

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

   Pages 70-100

6. Challenges and Opportunities of Organic Agriculture in Tanzania

   • Emmanuel R. Mbiha, Gasper C. Ashimogo

   Pages 101-119

7. Sustainability Standards and Agro-Food Exports from East Africa

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

   Pages 120-135

8. Localizing Private Social Standards: Standard Initiatives in Kenyan Cut Flowers

   • Lone Riisgaard

   Pages 136-161

9. Food Safety Standards and Fishery Livelihoods in East Africa

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

   Pages 162-183

10. When the Market Helps: Standards, Ecolabels and Resource Management Systems in East African Export Fisheries

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

    Pages 184-204

11. European Food Safety Regulation and Developing Countries’ Regulatory Problems and Possibilities

    • Morten Broberg

    Pages 205-231

12. Conclusion

    • Stefano Ponte

    Pages 232-243

13. Back Matter

    Pages 244-275

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Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports. This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards present to African countries – focusing on food safety, environmental and climate change, and social and labour standards.

• climate change
• culture
• environment
• Europe
• management
• safety
• sustainability
• development policy

'...the editors do a fantastic job...of summarising what is surely a growing trend in agro-food trade, and some authors, notably Riisgaard, offer valuable insights into the local politics of standards and how these are shaped by the continued power of Northern retailers within the value chain.' - Review of African Political Economy

• DIIS, Denmark

  Peter Gibbon, Stefano Ponte

• Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

  Evelyne Lazaro

PETER GIBBON is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His recent work includes Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains and The Global Economy (with Stefano Ponte).

STEFANO PONTE is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His recent work includes Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains and The Global Economy (with Peter Gibbon) and The Coffee Paradox: Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (with Benoit Daviron).
 
EVELYNE LAZARO is Senior Research Fellow in Agricultural Economics at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. She has published extensively on soil and water management and on agro-food standards.

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