Do Fresh Produce Exporters in Sub-Saharan Africa Benefit from GlobalGAP Certification?

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Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains (2015, background): “Henson et al. (2011) find that certification to GlobalGAP increases firms’ export revenues for a cross-sectional sample of fresh produce exporting firms from 10 African countries.”
Firms' Adoption of International Standards: Evidence from the Ethiopian Floriculture Sector (2015, background): “…Gebreeyesus and Iizuka, 2012; Gebreeyesus and Sonobe, 2012), but none address the determinants of firm level compliance with global standards.3 2 Henson et al. (2011) use survey data consisting of 102 fresh produce-exporting firms (including those sourcing from small out-growers and own farms)…”
Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “Standards turn disincentives into incentives because they offer adopters material benefits, such as price premiums and selective supply chains (Henson et al., 2011; King et al., 2012), legitimacy in the eyes of their stakeholders (Sine et al.”