Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards: Challenges for Africa (International Political Economy)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables, Figures and Map......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
List of Acronyms......Page 17
Governing through standards......Page 22
Trends in agro-food standards......Page 24
Standards, global value chain restructuring and exclusion......Page 31
Interventions aimed at greater inclusivity......Page 35
The contributions to this volume......Page 39
Introduction......Page 42
Why carbon footprinting?......Page 44
Methodological issues in product carbon footprinting......Page 45
ISO environmental standards and carbon footprinting......Page 47
Characteristics of product carbon footprinting schemes......Page 49
Consumer perceptions of and reactions to PCF......Page 59
Discussion and conclusion......Page 60
Introduction......Page 64
Standards for spices......Page 66
Local capacity for standards conformity assessment......Page 76
Concluding remarks......Page 87
Introduction......Page 91
Contract farming in Africa......Page 92
The economics of organic farming......Page 95
The organic contract farming schemes surveyed......Page 96
Research questions and methods......Page 103
Results......Page 106
Interpretation......Page 115
Conclusion......Page 117
Appendix: analytical strategy......Page 119
Background......Page 122
Developments in organic production, processing and marketing in Tanzania......Page 124
Problems, prospects and future outlook of the organic sector......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 132
Appendix......Page 133
Introduction......Page 141
Sustainability standards......Page 142
The standards and their local adoption......Page 144
UTZ CERTIFIED coffee in Tanzania......Page 146
GlobalGAP certified vegetables in Tanzania......Page 148
Social standards in the cut flower industries of Kenya and Tanzania......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 155
Introduction......Page 157
Private social standards and cut flowers in Kenya......Page 159
Kenyan social standard initiatives......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 178
Introduction......Page 183
The development of the Nile perch value chain in East Africa......Page 185
Livelihood dimensions......Page 190
Conclusion......Page 203
Introduction......Page 205
Meeting food safety standards......Page 206
Sustainability and fishery management systems......Page 211
Ecolabelling......Page 216
Conclusions......Page 221
The EU’s food safety regime......Page 226
Identifying the barriers......Page 227
Overcoming the barriers......Page 238
Perspectives for the future......Page 244
Appendix: Application of the European food safety regime and developing countries......Page 246
The content, coverage and proliferation of standards......Page 253
The governance of standards, local participation and issues related to conformity......Page 255
Standards, value chain restructuring and welfare outcomes......Page 260
Final remarks......Page 263
References......Page 265
Index......Page 286