Research on World Agricultural Economy

Effect of Standards on Sub-Saharan African Countries’Agricultural Exports

Dontsi Dontsi

Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaounde II, Yaoundé, P.O. Box 1365, Cameroon

Alexis Nankap Seujib

University Institute of Sciences, Technologies and Ethics, Yaoundé, P.O. Box 30201, Cameroon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36956/rwae.v5i4.1066

Received: 27 March 2024 | Revised: 6 August 2024 | Accepted: 26 August 2024 | Published Online: 26 September 2024

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of public standards (SPS, TBT) on Sub-Saharan Africa’s exports of food, which represent less than 3% of world food exports. This situation is accentuated by the standards on agricultural goods. A modest contribution has been made both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, the basic model has been criticized and subsequently reformulated by incorporating the cost function of food production in the exporting country. This reformulation made it possible to build a model, the methodology of which was developed by several authors. Empirical analysis shows that SPS and TBT standards have a negative impact on agricultural exports of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.

Keywords: Subsaharian Africa; Exports; Agricultural products; Standards; Border rejections

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