Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) offers improved trading opportunities for farmers, processors, entrepreneurs of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, traders and informal cross-border traders across urban, peri-urban, rural and border areas. The simplified requirements under the agreement provides the possibility of moving beyond informality into the formal economy. The AfCFTA can open up opportunities for women agripreneurs and traders to tap into new markets and move up the value chain for trading in agrifood goods. However, gains can only be achieved if trade facilitation is improved for both women and men across the continent. Ensuring the safety of agricultural goods and agrifood products and preventing foodborne illnesses is a goal of governments across the world. This policy brief examines how sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures may facilitate or limit women’s participation in the agrifood sector in Africa and how the AfCFTA provides an opportunity for African policymakers to make the SPS framework gender-responsive. The brief presents the specific SPS challenges facing women traders and agripreneurs, identifies how SPS measures under the AfCFTA can be made more gender-responsive, and provides recommendations on how SPS measures can be implemented to promote understanding and compliance among women traders and agripreneurs.
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Format: | Policy brief biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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FAO ; International Trade Centre (ITC) ;
2024
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Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd1028en |
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