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CHAPTER 6 Sustainability standards and agro-food exports from East Africa By Evelyne Lazaro, Lone Riisgaard, Fred

What are SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS all aboutIntend to operationalize and codify the concept of environmental and social sustainabilitySeek to address consumers' concerns over deficiencies in the existing food standards w.r.t. content and/ the way standards are implementedCover both environme

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CHAPTER 6 Sustainability standards and agro-food exports from East Africa By Evelyne Lazaro, Lone Riisgaard, Fred

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    1. CHAPTER 6   Sustainability standards and agro-food exports from East Africa By Evelyne Lazaro, Lone Riisgaard, Fredy Kilima, Jeremia Makindara and Raymond Mnenwa Pages 120-134

    2. What are SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS all about Intend to operationalize and codify the concept of environmental and social sustainability Seek to address consumers’ concerns over deficiencies in the existing food standards w.r.t. content and/ the way standards are implemented Cover both environmental and social requirements E.g. organic agriculture, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ CERTIFIED, and GlobalGAP

    3. THE DEBATE ON Standards Standards, labels and certification vary w.r.t their functions and impacts: Does it really pay to comply? Some impacts are indirect and realized in the long-run: Can these costs and benefits be quantified accurately? Do standards such as private labour standards favour some groups of workers? Can these standards constitute new non-tariff barriers for smallholders farmers in Africa? Are farmers in Africa competent enough to maintain an appropriate level of documentation as required? Do the necessary infrastructure to facilitate cost- effective and credible quality and safety assurance mechanism exist? The CHAPTER ATTEMPTS TO investigate THESE ISSUES

    4. KEY ISSUES DISCUSSED Who adopt the standards and what types of operator participate in different initiatives? i) How are the standards implemented? ii) Are there provisions to allow partial implementation of these standards? iii) If any, is partial implementation attributable to measurement problems and/poor adaption to local conditions? iv) What are the consequences of specific instances of such mismatch? 3. What have been the economic and social costs and benefits of standard adoption in each case and the opportunities and threats 4. What are the lessons on the key issues investigated?

    5. The case studies  

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