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Global agro-food trade and standards : challenges for Africa / edited by Peter Gibbon, Stefano Ponte and Evelyne Lazaro.

Title
  1. Global agro-food trade and standards : challenges for Africa / edited by Peter Gibbon, Stefano Ponte and Evelyne Lazaro.
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  1. Houndmills, Basinstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional authors
  1. Gibbon, Peter
  2. Lazaro, Evelyne
  3. Ponte, Stefano
Description
  1. xix, 275 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
Series statement
  1. International political economy series
Subject
  1. Farm produce > Standards > Africa
  2. Food industry and trade > Standards > Africa
  3. Agriculture > Economic aspects > Africa
  4. HEALTH & FITNESS > Safety
  5. International relations
  6. Political economy
  7. Comparative politics
  8. Politics and Government
  9. Agriculture > Economic aspects
  10. Farm produce > Standards
  11. Food industry and trade > Standards
Contents
  1. Agro-Food Standards and AFrica: Introduction / P. Gibbon & E. Lazaro -- Product carbon footprint standards and shemes / S. Bolwig & P. Gibbon -- Institutional Capacity for Food Safety Conformity In Tanzania / A. Akyoo & E. Lazaro -- An analysis of Organic farming schemes in East Africa / P. Gibbon, S. Bolwig, A. Akyoo, S. Jones, Y. Lin & L.L. Rants -- Challenges and opportunities of Organic Agriculture In Tanzania / E. Mbiha & G. Ashimogo -- Sustainability Standards And Agro-Food Exports from East Africa / E. Lazaro, L. Riisgaard, F. Kilima, J. Makindara & R Mnenwa -- Localizing private social standards: standard initiatives in Kenyan cut flowers / L. Riisgaard -- Food Safety Standards and fishery livelihoods in East Africa / R. Kadigi, N Mdoe, S Senkondo & Z. Mpenda -- When The Market Helps: Standards, Ecolabels And Resource Management In East African Export Fisheries / S. Ponte, R. Kadigi & W. Mitullah -- European food safety regulation and developing countries' regulatory problems and possibilities / M. Broberg -- Conclusion / S. Ponte.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
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