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On the origins of food loss KU Leuven
Worker Empowerment Through Private Standards. Evidence from the Peruvian Horticultural Export Sector KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this paper we analyse the impact of a variety of private standards on worker empowerment in the horticultural export sector in Peru. Empowerment is defined as workers’ knowledge of their own rights and workers’ perceived agency to improve employment conditions. We use data from a company and a two-round employee survey, and difference-in-difference propensity score matching ...
Sustainability of Global and Local Food Value Chains: An Empirical Comparison of Peruvian and Belgian Asparagus KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2016 by the authors. The sustainability of food value chains is an increasing concern for consumers, food companies and policy-makers. Global food chains are often perceived to be less sustainable than local food chains. Yet, thorough food chain analyses and comparisons of different food chains across sustainability dimensions are rare. In this article we analyze the local Belgian and global Peruvian asparagus value chains and explore their ...
Do private standards benefit workers in horticultural export chains in Peru? KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Private standards are spreading rapidly in international food production and trade, and are moving beyond food quality and safety aspect to address environmental and social concerns. We examine how effective private standards are in improving employment conditions in global food supply chains. Using panel data from own company and worker surveys and different econometric techniques, we analyze how the ...
The impact of private food standards on trade and development: Evidencefrom Peru KU Leuven
Standards are increasingly governing international food production and trade. While public standards are set by public authorities, private standards are set by private companies and non-state actors. Private food standardsnbsp;to emerge at the end of the 1990s, mainly in response to consumer concerns in high-income countries about food safety and quality, and later expanded to address environmental and ethical concerns. Due to the expansion of ...
The Impact of Private Food Standards on Developing Countries’ Export Performance: An Analysis of Asparagus Firms in Peru KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. In this paper we analyze the impact of private food standards on the export performance of asparagus export firms in Peru. We use 18-year panel data from 87 firms and apply fixed effects and GMM models. We do not find any evidence that certification to private standards in general and to specific individual private standards, has an effect on firms' export performance, neither at the extensive margin nor at the intensive ...
The impact of private food standards on trade and development: Evidence from Peru KU Leuven
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Private food standards are increasingly governing international agricultural trade and thereby affect developing countries. With this chapter we contribute to two ongoing debates on this issue for which the empirical evidence is still mixed. The first is on the trade effects, and whether standards act as barriers or catalysts for developing countries’ export. The second one is on the welfare ...