We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade … protectionism, a complicate task. We look at studies investigating public and private standards and across various quantitative … approaches and countries. These standards have complex effects. The evidence is mixed regarding standards as catalyst for or …

in the value chain. -- Coordination ; governance ; standards ; upgrading ; value chain analysis ; Honduras … Honduras engage in upgrading and whether this had an impact on the sales of those firms. The majority of the producers in the … vorliegende Studie, wie lokale Produzenten in Honduras im Upgrading-Prozess tätig sind und ob sich dies auf die Entwicklung der …

about how they can be effectively governed, especially in transnational domains. Governance of transitions is often … constrained by the equivocality of sustainability goals, the idiosyncrasy of niche experiments and the multiplicity of governance … sustainability transitions within a transnational sector. Our case is the global coffee sector where ‘sustainability standards' are …

governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products for 25 SSA countries during the period 1995 …-2015. Principal component analysis is employed to develop a governance index based on the six worldwide governance indicators and a … a higher governance index is correlated with a lower net-import dependency ratio and the relationship is statistically …

; food safety standards …