STANDARDS for DEVELOPMENT - Agrifood Systems Companion Report

The World Bank Group is currently preparing a Companion Report to the World Development Report 2025: Standards for Development focusing specifically on agrifood systems. The objective of this Companion Report is to better understand how agri-food standards affect market access, productivity, and inclusion—particularly for low- and middle-income countries and small-scale producers. To ensure that the report is practical and useful for policymakers and practitioners, we would greatly value your insights and experience. Your feedback will help us identify priority gaps, key challenges, and areas where further analysis or guidance could support more effective implementation of standards in agrifood systems.

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4. In your view, what are the most important gaps that the Standards for Development - Agrifood Systems Companion Report should address in order to be genuinely useful for policymakers and implementers? *This question is required.Please rank your top three choices, with 1 being the most important. Order the items from the following list. First select an item with the spacebar to show a menu of possible ranking positions. Next, click a ranking position to order it in the ranked list. Note the menu will display more ordering options as you add items to the ranked list.

Evidence on costs and benefits of complying with voluntary and mandatory agrifood standards, and how these differ for smallholders and SMEs versus larger firms.
Strategies to manage the changing landscape of agrifood standards, including the proliferation of private standards, co-regulatory approaches, and remaining gaps.
Guidance on how to prioritize Quality Infrastructure (QI) investments between export facilitation and domestic food safety.
Options to reduce non-tariff barriers through international regulatory cooperation
Guidance for governments on adoption of international standards (“align”) vs lower - less demanding - standards (“adapt”).
Role of governments in regulating/enforcing rules on agriculture inputs.
Framework for adapting food safety standards during crises without undermining long-term safety systems.
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