Supermarkets and Produce Quality and Safety Standards in Latin America
| Autor: | Thomas Reardon, Julio A. Berdegué, Luis Flores, Denise Y. Mainville, Fernando Balsevich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 85:1147-1154 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8276 0002-9092 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2003.00521.x |
| Popis: | Introduction This brief article focuses on how supermarkets in Latin America are imposing standards of quality and safety on producers of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) mainly for the domestic market. It is a synthesis of recent case studies from a range of Latin American countries. The range includes Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua – the range being in decreasing order of household income, share of supermarkets in overall food retail, and from strongest to weakest domestic public health standards. The research is based on fieldwork in Brazil in 2002 and in Central America in March/April 2003, including rapid reconnaissance surveys of supermarket chains, wholesalers, and suppliers. The questions focused on procurement practices and application of standards, including private enforcement of public standards, and application of private standards. The article begins with a short section analyzing the “trade bias” in the literature on FFV standards and argues for the need for agricultural development and trade economists to pay close attention to the role of supermarkets in setting quality and safety standards for domestic suppliers. This role is both a neglected area of research and an important one because we show supermarkets in Latin America buy far more from local producers than is exported from Latin America to the rest of the world. The next section focuses on changing |
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