{"id":5085,"date":"2019-09-04T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"push-to-invest-in-agri-food-standards-attract-regional-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/04\/push-to-invest-in-agri-food-standards-attract-regional-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Push To Invest In Agri-Food Standards Attract Regional Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By&nbsp;Julius Bizimungu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plant and animal products\ntraded across the world are subjected to global standards under what is known\nas Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures set by the World Trade\nOrganisation (WTO), a body that deals with global rules of trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These measures are generally\nmeant to protect human, animal and plant health from risks arising from\ncontaminants, toxins, additives, or disease organisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are also meant to\nprotect animal or plant life from pests, diseases, and disease-causing\norganisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In essence, if a Rwandan\ntrader exports fruits to the European market or any other market, the products\nare usually subject to inspection to check if they live up to those standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other markets, the\nproducts will be subject to testing of packaging\nand&nbsp;labeling&nbsp;standards, processing methods and certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many cases, countries with\nstronger SPS standards tend to trade less with countries that have weaker SPS\nstandards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More developed nations\nnormally have stronger standards and demand a lot from less developed countries\nand less developed countries end up being victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, between 1995\nand 2017, developed countries raised 242 SPS trade concerns as opposed to only\n7 concerns raised by least developed countries. 226 measures were maintained as\nopposed to only 1 measure, according to WTO\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/push-invest-agri-food-standards-attract-regional-attention\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Julius Bizimungu Plant and animal products traded across the world are subjected to global standards under what is known as Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures set by the World Trade&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}