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Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards

Challenges for Africa

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Peter Gibbon

    1. DIIS, Denmark

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  2. Stefano Ponte

    1. DIIS, Denmark

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  3. Evelyne Lazaro

    1. Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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.

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'...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

Editors and Affiliations

  • DIIS, Denmark

    Peter Gibbon, Stefano Ponte

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

    Evelyne Lazaro

About the editors



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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