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The Global Partnership for Safe and Sustainable Agriculture
• Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) standard • Voluntary not regulatory • Not Official EU….. despite the name!• Private sector led organisation (Not for profit)• Harmonizing B2B Scheme- no consumer labels• Certification process uses International Norms
ISO 65• Supported in Private and Public sector
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EurepGAP Step by Step…not withstanding adjustment issues:
•Contributes to sustainable agricultural production on a Global level•Harmonises the main buyer requirements•Leads to Management Improvement of Farms•Opens new markets :Value Added for Products•Embraces small scale farming to market access •Voluntary, Open and Inclusive : Cost effective solution for a global industry•EurepGAP system transparency complements Official Controls
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1. To identify specific ways that EurepGAP standards can be more inclusive of smallholder farmers from developing countries and assist EurepGAP members to develop/adjust appropriate technical standards
2.To raise awareness amongst stakeholders about the EurepGAP decision making process
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1.Review of existing research and case study evidence about EurepGAP standards
2.Use this evidence and stakeholder consultation to identify issues of key relevance to poor farmers in developing countries and opportunities for influencing EurepGAP standards
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4.Support developing country members of the EurepGAP committees board e.g. raising awareness of how standards impact on smallholder farmers, compiling evidence to support particular issues raised in [2] and subsequently by developing country producers
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5.Observe and contribute to the fruit and vegetable (FV) and flower and ornament (FO) technical standard committee meetings of EurepGAP
6.Feedback to other interested parties e.g. producer organisations, NGOs, Governments and other donor agencies that have expressed an interest in EurepGAP standards
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World Bank Stricter standards can provide a stimulus for
investments in supply-chain modernization, provide increased incentives for the adoption of better safety and quality control practices in agriculture and food manufacturing, and help clarify the appropriate and necessary roles of government in food safety and agricultural health management. Rather than degrading the comparative advantage of developing countries, the compliance process can result in new forms of competitive advantage and contribute to more sustainable and profitable trade over the long term.
Worldbank, Report No. 31207 Food Safety and Agricultural Health Standards: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Exports Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Trade Unit and Agriculture and Rural Development Department January 10, 2005
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An emerging literature on standards, global supply chains, and development argues that enhanced quality and safetystandards could be major trade barriers for developing countryexports and cause the marginalization of small businessesand poor households in developing countries. The paper of Maertens and Swinnen is the first to quantifyincome and poverty effects of such high-standards tradeand to integrate labor market effects, by using companyand household survey data from the vegetable export chain inSenegal. Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal,
December 4, 2006 |New paper by Miet Maertens and Johan F.M. Swinnen
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1. Horticultural exports from Senegal (but also Kenya, Mozambique and others) to the EU have grown sharply despite increasing food standards in the EU.
2. These exports have strong positive effects on poor households' income. We estimate that these exports reduced (in Senegal) regional poverty by around 12 percentage points and reduced extreme poverty by half.
3. Tightening food standards induced structural changes in the supply chain including a shift from smallholder contract-based farming to large-scale integrated estate production. These changes mainly altered the mechanism through which poor households benefit: through labor markets instead of product markets.
4. The impact on poverty reduction is strongest through labor markets as the poorest benefit relatively more from working on large-scale farms than from contract farming.
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APPROACHSmallholders will be globally involved (incl. EU 27)in all sectors of agricultural production • Creation and involvement of national smallholder
groups in standard setting processes (smallholder guideline, example German smallholder practitioners with seat in national standard comittee)
• Continuation of a collective learning process for the optimization/reduction of the costs for smallholder producers (meeting of option 2 practitioners at GTZ)
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