The significance and adoption of food quality and safety standards in developingcountries – a case study for the EurepGAP standard in the mango export sectorin Piura, Peru

In recent decades an increasing significance of food quality and safety standardsand agricultural health standards in international agricultural trade can beobserved. A subgroup of these standards is constituted by standards schemesrequired by private industry actors, like for example the framework for goodagricultural practices EurepGAP. Due to the increasing market share of thestandard on the one hand and its high complexity on the other hand, concernscan be raised about the standard´s impact on developing countries´agriculturalexport sectors, especially with regard to small farmers....