The Compliance Process of Food Quality Standards on Primary Producer Level:A Case Study of the EUREPGAP Standard in the Moroccan Tomato Sector

Fruit and vegetable sectors are principally seen as sectors where small producers are able to participate due to their low demand on land and their high labor requirements. However, the concerns exists that small producers' participation in the international fruit and vegetable trade could be diminishing as a result of the increasing prevalence of food quality standards in the sector...

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Chemnitz, Christine
Institutions:	Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät
Subject:	Sicherheit \| Compliance-System \| Lebensmittel \| Food

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1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Standards - Innovations from the Producers Perspective
2.2 Applying the Innovation Decision Model to the Compliance Process with Food Standards - Strengths and Weakness
3 Methodology and Data Collection
3.1 The Analytical Framework
3.2 Data Collection
4 The Moroccan Tomato Sector
4.1 Economic Importance and Structure of the Moroccan Tomato Sector
4.2 Prevalence of Legal and Private Food Standards in the Moroccan Export Sector
5 Compliance with Food Safety Requirements: Results of the Survey
5.1 The Information Stage
5.2 The Attitude Stage
5.3 Decision Stage
5.4 The Implementation Stage
6 Similarities and Differences among Compliers and Non-compliers
7 Conclusions
8 References

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