Food Safety Requirements And Food Exports From Developing Countries: The Case Of Fish Exports From Kenya To The European Union

Abstract

A key element of the" globalization" of the world food economy is the development of global commodity chains, a key element of which is progressively greater levels of trade in agricultural and food products. Simulta-neously, there has been structural change in the composition of world trade in agricultural and food products, with traditional export commodities, for example, coffee, tea, sugar, and cocoa, being displaced by so-called" high-value foods" such as fruit and vegetables, poultry, and fish (Watts and Goodman). In developing countries, this has given rise to what Friedmann (1993; 1994) calls" new agricultural economies," with export-oriented supply chains that are reliant on high-value markets in developed countries and produc-tion systems that are divorced from local consumption. Exports of high-value food brought benefits to a number of developing countries at both the macro-and microeco-nomic levels