understanding potential mechanisms through which Malagasy farmers may benefit from GlobalGap standards and assessing consequences on …

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

estimations suggest that, on average, quality standards and packaging and labeling issues are considered the most stringent. We …Increasing awareness of food safety issues has brought a boost in sanitary and phytosanitary regulations and standards …

This paper explores the competing concepts of 'standards as barriers' and standards as catalysts' in the context of … 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 …

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 … review possible approaches to modeling standards existent in the literature, elaborate the reasoning behind them and discuss … specific situation, they may not be appropriate in others. That is they capture certain effects of standards only. With …

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 …

This paper examines how farmers have adapted to the current range of climates across China. A cross sectional method is … used to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405 farmers in 28 provinces in China. We find that both …

China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching … in high-value agrifood chains, China should pursue a more incremental and facilitative approach based around developing …