Growing concern over health risks associated with food products is at the forefront of trade policy debate. At the …, the EUropean ban on hormone-treated beef. The authors quantify the impact on food exports from African countries of new …

The proliferation and increased stringency of food safety and agricultural health standards is a source of concern … high-value agro-food products (including fish, horticultural, and other products), either because these countries lack the …-value agricultural and food products. The evidence the authors present, while only partial, suggests that the picture for developing …

such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby … technologies if that enables them and/or consumer and environmental lobbyists to argue for restraints on imports from GM …

decades, and, most important, the study measures the relative importance of these net food imports in the import basket of the … percentage of their imports. Our results also show that only 6 low-income countries have food deficits that are more than 10 … percent of their imports. Last two decades have seen a significant improvement in the food trade balances of low …

Food safety standards, and the tradeoff between these standards, and agricultural export growth, are at the forefront … of the trade policy debate. How food safety is addressed in the world trade system, is critical for developing countries … that continue to rely on agricultural exports. In a fragmented system of conflicting national food safety standards, and no …

the level of animal-source food intake, but they decrease the consumption share of fish. This suggests that increased …

context of the food export bans imposed by many developing countries in the late 2000s …