Food Safety Requirements and Food Exports from Developing Countries: The Case of Fish Exports from Kenya to the European Union

Reversing Nigeria’s Food Import Dependency - Agricultural Transformation

“…On the demand side, the absence or weakness of structures that protect consumers" rights and control the safety and quality of food circulated in the market in many African countries, including the richer ones, is widely known [30,35,36]. This has encouraged entry of cheaper foreign products whose sanitary quality are sometimes suspect (i.e., the dumping of expired or nearly expired products).…”

Quantifying the Trade Effect of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regulations of OECD Countries on South African Food Exports

“…The EU has imposed several bans on the fishing export from Lake Victoria, which was the main source of fisheries for Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique (Henson, Brouder, and Mitullah, 2000b). The first ban, which occurred in April 1997, was due to the presence of salmonellae and the second ban, was as a result of the cholera outbreak in 1998.…”

“…A study by Henson et al, (2000b) suggests that at the macro level, the Nile Perch export dropped by 66 percent and the total fish exports has fallen by 24 percent with a corresponding 32 percent drop in value. The third ban is estimated to have an adverse impact on approximately 40,000 artisan fishermen's livelihood.…”

Globalization and restructuring of African commodity flows

“…These investments often surpass the financial capacity of the small producer. Numerous studies of the responses of the fish-exporting sector in developing countries to new hygiene rules in the EU market have shown that the costs of conforming to strict hygiene requirements often create substantial problems for small operators in the supply chain, including traditional fishermen (Henson et al 2000;Cato and Lima dos Santos 1998). production inputs may also be of a fixed nature.…”