food safety standards in international trade in agricultural and food products. It is suggested that food safety standards … food safety standards can throw some light on the circumstances under which standards act to prohibit trade or …This paper explores the competing concepts of 'standards as barriers' and standards as catalysts' in the context of …

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …, especially private industry standards are often expected to have a negative impact on agricultural export sectors in developing … countries. The successful adoption of standards by a broad number of producers can be seen as a condition to limit negative …

exporters themselves, often with financial support and technical assistance from donors and trade facilitators. This has … entailed an unexpected situation, characterized by a boom in the number of certified farmers when development programs started … understanding potential mechanisms through which Malagasy farmers may benefit from GlobalGap standards and assessing consequences on …

We develop a general equilibrium households model to analyze the effects of high standards food chains taking seriously … dataset from China and do simulations through three ways: increasing world price of high standards food, increasing urban … households’ preference for high standards food, and relaxing credit constraints on high standards food production. The simulation …

Increasing awareness of food safety issues has brought a boost in sanitary and phytosanitary regulations and standards … have found that individual quantitative measures of regulatory stringency have an impact on trade, but none has looked into … estimations suggest that, on average, quality standards and packaging and labeling issues are considered the most stringent. We …

The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving … models to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain under pre-accession conditions. We argue … as pricing behavior, compliance costs and market structure, all of which influence the adoption of standards, are …

Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

Throughout recent year food quality standards have become a ubiquitous phenomenon that nationally and globally … influences agri-food markets. With equilibrium models commonly used in the quantitative analysis of market and trade effects, we … review possible approaches to modeling standards existent in the literature, elaborate the reasoning behind them and discuss …