Global agro-food trade and standards
Subtitle: challenges for Africa
By: edited by Peter Gibbon, Evelyne Lazaro, Stefano Ponte.
Contributors: Gibbon, Peter.; Lazaro, Evelyne.; Ponte, Stefano.
Series: International political economy series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basinstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780230579514
Subjects: Farm produce -- Standards -- Africa; Food industry and trade -- Standards -- Africa; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Africa
Description: "This collection focuses on new generations of international standards and regulations in the agro-food sector and on issues relating to conformity to them in low-income countries. Its analyses draw of political economy, economics, economic geography and economic sociology"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; P.Gibbon &; title: E.Lazaro; title: Climate Labeling Standards For Food And Developing Countries; title: S.Bolwig &; title: P.Gibbon; title: A Problem Of Institutional Capacity? Food Safety Conformity Assessment In Tanzania; title: A.Akyoo &; title: E.Lazaro; title: Production To Certified Organic Standards And Smallholder Revenue In East Africa; title: P.Gibbon, S.Bolwig, A.Akyoo &; title: S.Jones; title: Issues In The Development Of Organic Agriculture In Tanzania; title: E.Mbiha; title: Sustainability Standards And Agro-Food Exports; title: E.Lazaro, L.Riisgaard, F.Kilima &; title: J.Makindara; title: A Political Economy Of Social Standards In The Cut Flower Export Chain; title: L.Riisgaard; title: Food Safety Standards, The Nile Perch Value Chain And Fishery Livelihoods In East Africa; title: R.Kadigi, N Mdoe, S Senkondo &; title: Z.Mpenda; title: When The Market Helps: Standards, Ecolabels And Resource Management In East African Export Fisheries; title: S.Ponte, R.Kadigi &; title: W.Mitullah; title: The New EU Food Safety Regime And Developing Countries: A Legal Perspective; title: M.Broberg; title: Conclusion; title: P.Gibbon, E.Lazaro &; title: S.Ponte.