Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A Survival Analysis of Firm Decisions

Capacity versus incentive factors explaining research productivity: Comparative and multilevel analysis of Nigeria and Ghana agricultural research systems

“…One key area addressed in other fields and relevant to agricultural research is the need to distinguish between capacity and incentive (Ragasa et al, 2013a(Ragasa et al, , b, 2014 and between organization and institution (Raina, 2003). On agricultural extension, Anderson and Feder (2004) and Ragasa et al (2013b) indicated the lack of incentives of public extension providers as the main cause of the problem.…”

“…On agricultural policymaking processes, Ragasa et al (2014) showed that both capacity challenges and more so incentive factors are impeding the effective design and implementation of food and agricultural policy and institutional reform processes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On food safety certification, Ragasa et al (2013a) showed that incentives (in terms of price differentials in alternative markets) were more important factors in explaining continued certification than capacity of compliance of processing firms in the Philippines. On agricultural research, Raina (2003) stresses the need to distinguish between organizational management systems and institutional reform, which is critical for the effectiveness of both policy and of innovation processes.…”