Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards: Challenges for Africa

Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports. This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards present to African countries - focusing on food safety, environmental and climate change, and social and labour standards.

Author: P. Gibbon
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/21/2010
Pages: 275
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230579514

About the Author

PETER GIBBON is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His recent work includes Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains and The Global Economy (with Stefano Ponte).

STEFANO PONTE is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His recent work includes Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains and The Global Economy (with Peter Gibbon) and The Coffee Paradox: Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (with Benoit Daviron).

EVELYNE LAZARO is Senior Research Fellow in Agricultural Economics at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. She has published extensively on soil and water management and on agro-food standards.