Food insecurity can generate nutritional problems such as iron deficiency anemia, which in countries like Honduras is a …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

Privately initiated food quality standards are currently important elements in the marketing of food and agricultural … farmers in developing countries. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC Technical Food …

The impact of food safety standards on international trade has already been addressed. Generally, economists try to …

We construct a model to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain. We argue that … behavior, compliance costs and market structure, all of which influence the adoption of standards, are identified and discussed … rate of standards. The dominance of large-scale holdings in the relevant procurement market significantly increases …

This paper presents a general political economy model of standards. We use the model to derive political and social … optima of nutrition and health standards in food markets, and to identify under which cases “understandardization” or “over …

higher market requests for producing agricultural products. Different coordination mechanisms can be observed inside the … coordination mechanisms on inclusion or exclusion of small farmers in the northern region of Costa Rica. Market coordination could … adequate selling mechanisms. Hybrid coordination is the main mechanism and facilitates the inclusion of small farmers …

how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes …) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination … neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence. …

level of communication and different coordination mechanisms among stakeholders could help in recovering a better market … the structural features of the market and through the low level of communication and coordination between the agents. This …