The incentives to adopt food safety standards: the example of approval and health certificate in the dairy cattle farming sector in Souk Ahras, Algeria

Fateh Mamine ()
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Fateh Mamine: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques

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Abstract: This work presents a study conducted on the incentives to adopt food safety standards in the dairy cattle farming sector in Souk Ahras in Algeria. The State remains the main prescriber of food safety standards because of its socio-political legitimacy as a guarantor of public health. Here, all possible incentives to adopt food safety standards (including the institutional environment, the market and the farms desire for internal efficiency), have been studied. This study show that, despite its shortcomings, the institutional environment played a positive role in the adoption of food safety standards. The absence of differentiation by the safety quality led to a lack of market incentives (price). While the farms search for internal economic efficiency remains of paramount importance in the alignment with the food safety standards. Any initiative to establish standards must be accompanied by mechanisms aiming at strengthening the external and internal incentives of the farm.

Keywords: food safety standards; contractual rules; incentives; dairy cattle farming; algeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in International Journal of Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology, 2016, 12 (1), pp.93-112. ⟨10.1504/IJARGE.2016.074681⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2016.074681

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