tolerance standards: organics (i.e., zero-synthetic chemicals). The focus is on the governance of organic standards in the rural …

aims to identify the factors influencing a certification according to food safety and quality standards and the impact on …The growing importance of food quality and safety standards in international markets is influencing production and …-certified Chilean smallholder raspberry producers is analyzed. The analysis of the certification decision shows that small-scale farmers …

progressively stringent food quality production standards—‘hazard-free’, ‘green food’, and organic—on its purported path to zero … ecological impact and zero food safety risk. We describe the structures and institutions that perform these standards and their …-driven yet market-oriented economy with limited civil society involvement, the system of extensive standards has not been clearly …

We introduce a standards restrictiveness index to analyze the impact that food safety standards have on international … exports of agricultural products. Our new measure of standards restrictiveness is created using maximum residue levels of … standards are associated, on average, with a lower probability of observing trade. However, after controlling for sample …

buyers, public certification of quality and food safety often substitutes for contracts. Furthermore, the membership …

Retailer initiated food quality standards are important elements to market food and agricultural products. However …, farmers’ certification proceeds at an unequal speed worldwide with some countries representing a large number of certified … producers and others representing very few, if any. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC …