Canadian Agri-value Interests in the Canadian Standards Strategy

Table of Contents

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Emerging Biodiverse Industries
1.2 Private and Public Action for Capturing the Benefits

2.0 ECONOMICS AND STRATEGY OF STANDARDS-BASED
DEVELOPMENT

2.1 Product Standardization for Efficient Market Exchange

2.1.1 Trust as a Criteria for Exchange
2.1.2 Private and Public Market Intervention
(Brands through to Regulations)
2.1.3 Market Institutions

2.2 The Economics and Commercial Strategy for Trading Knowledge
2.3 The Public Role in Nurturing Standards-Based Growth

2.3.1 Public Role
2.3.2 Standardization as a National Industrial Policy

3.0 EMERGING BIODIVERSE SECTORS

3.1 Organic foods

3.1.1 Organizing Stakeholders
3.1.2 Developing the Standard
3.1.3 Organic Certification Industry

3.2 Specialized Livestock

3.2.1 New Opportunities for Specialized Livestock
3.2.2 Existing Specialized Livestock Standards and Regulations
3.2.3 The Emerging Need for Standards for the Specialized Livestock Industry
3.2.4 Collective Processes Completed and Underway

3.3 Plant fibre

3.3.1 New Opportunities for Processed Agricultural Fibre
3.3.2 Existing Agricultural Fibre Standards and Regulations
3.3.3 Identified need for Fibre Standards
3.3.4 The Agricultural Fibre Industry Collective Efforts

3.4 Natural Health Products

3.4.1 Regulatory Structure for Growing Consumer Market
3.4.2 Standards as A Competitive Advantage

3.5 Conformity Assessment and Maintaining Standards
3.6 Summary of Lessons

4.0 A POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR STANDARDS IN CANADIAN AGRI-VALUE SECTORS

4.1 General Policy Framework
4.2 Policy Response in Agri-value Sectors

4.2.1 Support Collective Action in Agri-value Sectors
4.2.2 Agri-value Policy Framework

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS