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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (1) Autor Okello, Julius Juma (1) Swinton, Scott M. (1) Palavra-chave Economies of size (1) Farmer compliance (1) Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety (1) Food safety standards (1) Principal-agent (1) Transaction costs (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (1) Ano 2005 (1) País United States (1) Idioma Inglês (1)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Compliance with International Food Safety Standards in Kenya's Green Bean Industry: A Paired Case Study of Small and Large Family Farms AgEcon Okello, Julius Juma; Swinton, Scott M.. This study uses two farm case studies to explore how Kenyan green bean farmers are meeting European food safety standards. For green bean farmers, the standards increase the fixed costs and the transactions costs of producing beans; the standards also alter how bean quality is assessed. Both the small and the large farm use contracts to protect their specific investments in complying with the standards. However, while the large farm invests in improved facilities using its own equity, the small farm uses a marketing group to spread investment costs and reduce the transaction cost to buyers of monitoring the performance of small units. Green bean buyers face the asymmetric information problem of creating incentives for farmers to comply voluntarily with... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Food safety standards; Farmer compliance; Transaction costs; Principal-agent; Economies of size; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. Ano: 2005 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19241 Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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