Markets and Marketing of Organic Fish

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Africa-Observer Project
How to make developing countries' voices heard in
the private standards' arena?
Dr. Johannes Kern Meckesheim Germany www.africa-
observer.info
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How to make developing countries' voices heard in
the private standards' arena?

• Smallholder/Stakeholder involvement
• a) Overview
• b) National Technical Working Groups
• Activities
• a) Smallholder task force
• b) Call for proposals and return
• c) Workshop
• Lessons learned and way forward

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1.a) Smallholder/Stakeholder Involvement
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1.a) Smallholder/Stakeholder Involvement

• Open Standard Setting Procedure and stakeholder
  involvement during the standard revision
• public consultation phase (single proposals and
  round table discussions)
• members peer review

see www.globalgap.org
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NTWGs
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1.b) National Technical Working Groups (NTWG)

• 1. Actual status
• In 21 countries several approved National
  Interpretation Guidelines
• Pro-active strategy of GLOBALGAP (countries with
  gt 300 certificates)
• 2. How to start a NTWGs?
• On initiative of members (GLOBALGAP) from single
  countries
• All organisations can become a member (Producers,
  retailers, exporters, CBs, government, NGOs etc.)
• Smallholder experts should be invited and
  represented
• 3. What are the NTWGs major task?
• Define local agenda and priorities
• Develop Interpretation Guidelines
• Close cooperation with FoodPLUS and Sector
  Committees
• Improve transparency and integrity of GLOBALGAP
  in the country
• Facilitate implementation of GLOBALGAP in the
  country by adapting the global criteria to local
  situation
• Get connected to the other NTWGs

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2.a) The Smallholder Task Force

• Ruth NYAGA Africert/GTZ Kenya
• Kevin MAART DFPT South Africa
• Kofi BINEY GTZ Ghana
• Babacar SAMB Bioscope/NL Senegal
• Andrew GRAFFHAM NRI/IIED UK
• Steve HOMER Biospartners UK
• Interfaces to SC Richard Yudin, Andreas
  Kreuzmair (Edeka)
• Moderation Elme Coetzer, Johannes Kern
• Back Office (BO) Bianca Untied (GTZ), Kerstin
  Uhlig
• DFPT (Deciduous Fruit Producers Trust)
• SC (GLOBALGAP Sector Committee)

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2.b) Call for proposals (I)

• Targets
• carry out public call for innovative proposals to
  improve GLOBALGAP standard for smallholders
• gather feedback on best practices from projects
  around the globe
• prepare high score proposals for Sector Committee

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2.b) Call for proposals (II)

• Methodology
• Proposal sheets were divided into three parts
• Related topic (General Regulations or CPCC)
• Justification
• Impact assessment
• Independent evaluation by the Smallholder Task
  Force
• Discussion on proposals during the Workshop
  GLOBALGAP Group Certification A challenge for
  smallholders in Europe and developing countries

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2.b) Return key issues (I)

• 64 proposals from various stakeholder groups
  (Experts, CBs, NGOs etc.) throughout the world
• General Regulations
• Internal auditors and farmers ratio quantity of
  inspections relationship between internal and
  external audits
• Farmer group vs. individual farmer as certificate
  holder
• Option 1 for smallholder groups
• Registration and certification fees

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2.b) Return key issues (II)

• CPCC (Control Points and Compliance Criteria)
• Examples
• Capacity development on food safety issues
• Number of CPCC
• Practicability of some CPCC

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2.b) Return key issues (III)

• QMS
• Harmonisation (mutual recognition) of producer
  QMS/ICS across various standards
• Capacity development concerning QMS
• Functioning of sanctioning system

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2.c) The Workshop

• Organised by GTZ together with GLOBALGAP,
  Marktkontor Baden and the Observer Project
• 52 Participants from 16 countries
• Presentations from Belgium, South Tirol, Turkey,
  Kenya, Ghana and Senegal
• Report under www.africa-observer.info

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2.c) The Workshop

• Work group 1 The revision of GLOBALGAP Control
  Points to reflect the needs of smallholders
• Work group 2 The revision of General
  Regulations to reflect the needs of
  smallholders
• Work group 3 The participation of producer
  associations in the standard-setting process,
  e.g. in National Technical Working Groups
• Work group 4 QMS and the question of how
  producer associations can be supported during
  the implementation

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3. Lessons learned and way forward

• Expert(s) from retailers in task force
• Selection of themes from call for future task
  force work
• Second call for proposals, more transparent, more
  languages
• Linking up with UNCTAD project on smallholder
  communication

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