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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (1) Autor Asfaw, Solomon (1) Mithofer, Dagmar (1) Waibel, Hermann (1) Palavra-chave Adoption (1) Agribusiness (1) Agricultural and Food Policy (1) Farmer’s health (1) Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety (1) GlobalGAP standards (1) International Development (1) Kenya (1) Pesticide (1) Q13 (1) Q17 (1) Vegetables (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (1) Ano 2009 (1) País United States (1) Idioma Inglês (1)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Food-safety Standards and Farmers Health: Evidence from Kenyan’s Export Vegetable Growers AgEcon Asfaw, Solomon; Mithofer, Dagmar; Waibel, Hermann. Limited empirical evidence exists either to confirm or refute the hypotheses that food-safety standards confer a positive external effect on farmers adopting it. This article makes use of health indicators obtained from a random cross-section sample of 439 small-scale export farmers in Kenya to evaluate the impact of EU retailer food-safety standards on producers’ health. Results show average cost of pesticide-related health risks at about 165 KSh and 324 KSh per cropping season for GlobalGAP adopters and non-adopters export producers, respectively. These costs equal 86.4% of the mean household chemical expenditure per cropping season for non-adopters and 39.6% of those adopters. Using instrumental variable econometric techniques we demonstrate that... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Vegetables; GlobalGAP standards; Adoption; Pesticide; Farmer’s health; Kenya; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development; Q13; Q17. Ano: 2009 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49928 Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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