Food Standards, Trade and Development

Miet Martens and Johan Swinnen
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Miet Maertens

Review of Business and Economic Literature, 2009, vol. LIV, issue 3, 313-326

Abstract: This paper discusses the impact of increasing standards in food production and trade on the export opportunities of low-income countries and on development in these countries. The increase in food standards is often seen as a threat to poor countries, diminishing their export opportunities and leading to an unequal distribution of the gains from trade, resulting in marginalization of poor farmers. However, many of the arguments are subject to debate and also empirical studies have come to diverse conclusions about the effects of increasing food standards on development. In this paper we give an overview of these arguments and the empirical evidence.

Keywords: food standards; international trade; vertical coordination; food supply chains; developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 O13 O19 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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