| Autor: |
Kadigi, Reuben M. J., Mdoe, Ntengua S. Y., Senkondo, Ephraim, Mpenda, Zena |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2007 |
| Předmět: |
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| Popis: |
Exports of non-traditional products from developing to developed countries have increased rapidly over the past two decades. However, one of the major challenges facing developing countries in seeking to maintain and expand their share of global markets is stringent food-safety requirements in industrialized countries. The effects of compliance with these requirements and their distributional impacts among actors in developing countries are generally not well known. Based on this understanding, a study was conducted on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria (in Mwanza and Mara regions) to evaluate the effects of food-safety standards on the livelihoods of actors in the Nile perch value chain using the Livelihoods Analysis and Change in Net Income (CNI) approach. The effects of food-safety standards were imputed as the residual values between the “with” and “without” compliance scenarios for a specified actor category. The results of the analysis showed that the livelihood platform and income portfolios for the “with”-compliance scenario was relatively more favourable than that in the alternative, “without”- compliance scenario. The difference in human capital and livestock holdings between fishers / crews in the two scenarios was however non-significant (P |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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