Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Swinnen, Johan; Deconinck, Koen; Vandemoortele, Thijs; Vandeplas, Anneleen

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139198912

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“…These conflicts included elements of quantity (increased supply causing falling prices) and quality (historical producers claiming that wine from new producers were lower quality and were therefore affecting the consumer perceptions of all wines-a typical asymmetric information-driven Akerlof-lemon-market problem). This is fully consistent with theoretical arguments and empirical studies which identify the combination of both as important elements in the welfare effects and in the political economy of standards and regulations such as GIs (Beghin et al, 2015;Swinnen et al, 2015;Swinnen, 2016). While the quantity (supply) problem seems obvious from the historical documents, it is more difficult to establish whether the quality and consumer perception problems were real or mostly political arguments.…”

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Trade and terroir. The political economy of the world’s first geographical indications

Meloni

Swinnen

2018

Food Policy

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The world's first geographical indications (GIs) were in the wine sector and focused on the delineation of the location of production, the 'terroir': the Burgundy wines in the fifteenth century, the Port wines and Chianti wines in the eighteenth century, and the Champagne wines in the early twentieth century. We analyze the causes for the introduction of these GIs ('terroirs') and for changes in their delineation (expansion) later on. Our analysis shows that trade played a very important role in the creation of the 'terroirs' but not always through the same mechanisms. For the Port and Chianti GIs it was exports to Britain that were crucial; for Burgundy it was domestic trade to Paris; and for the Champagne GI it was not exports but pressure from wine imports and new wine regions that played a crucial role. For the expansions of the GIs later in history, other factors seem to have been equally important. Expansions of the GIs in the years and centuries after their introduction followed major changes in political power; the spread of a new philosophy in liberal and free markets across Europe; and infrastructure investments which opened up markets and made exports cheaper from "new" producers.

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Trade and terroir. The political economy of the world’s first geographical indications

Meloni

Swinnen

2018

Food Policy

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“…The horticultural commodities produced for these MSC are usually more labor‐intensive than for field crops (Weinberger and Lumpkin, ). The cultivation of high‐standard products and quality requirements also require farmers to invest in agricultural inputs, including labor (Swinnen et al., ). We can thus expect that participating households’ hired labor demand would increase, should their family labor endowments not be sufficient.…”

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Smallholder participation in vegetable exports and age‐disaggregated labor allocation in Northern Tanzania

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Brümmer

Afari‐Sefa³

2018

Agricultural Economics

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Modern agricultural supply chains have been playing an increasingly important role in developing countries and have had significant effects on rural labor markets. This article analyses the effects of smallholder farmer participation in export vegetable supply chains in Northern Tanzania on both household hired labor demand and off-farm labor supply, using an age-disaggregated approach. In our sample, neither separability nor exogeneity of smallholder farmer participation in export supply chains can be rejected. Hence, we apply lognormal double-hurdle models and find that participation in export supply chains positively affects households' decision to hire labor from all age groups. We also find that it increases the unconditional overall level of hired labor demand, while the age-disaggregated analysis shows that these effects mostly benefit rural youth. However, our sample does not allow us to establish statistically significant evidence of an effect on household off-farm labor supply although the point estimates point to nonnegligible positive effect sizes.JEL classifications: I31, J43, O12, Q12

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“…countries noting the trade enhancing effects that can be had when done in a co-operative manner. For a study of the broader welfare impacts of standards see van Tongeren et al (2009) and Swinnen et al (2015).…”

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Trade and Economic Effects of IRC

Disdier

Stone

Tongeren

2019

OECD Trade Policy Papers

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This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD countries. The publication of this paper has been authorised by Ken Ash, Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. This document has been declassified on the responsibility of the Working Party of the Trade Committee under the OECD reference number under the OECD reference number TAD/TC/WP(2018)6/FINAL.

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Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

Cited by 71 publications

References 328 publications

Trade and terroir. The political economy of the world’s first geographical indications

Trade and terroir. The political economy of the world’s first geographical indications

Smallholder participation in vegetable exports and age‐disaggregated labor allocation in Northern Tanzania

Trade and Economic Effects of IRC

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