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on agricultural productivity, public health and the environment, and the degree to which they bring
about reductions in poverty and impacts on vulnerable groups.
Figure 33. Net flows for baseline model with adjusted trade impact of compliance with hygiene
requirements for milk exports
The end result is a clear ranking of the 16 capacity-building options, which appears relatively robust to
changes in the weights attached to the decision criteria and to changes in the decision criteria applied,
specifically to focus more narrowly on trade impacts. Of the 16 options in the analysis the following four
are consistently ranked as high priority:
Pesticide controls for tea.
Compliance with SPS requirements for chilli sauce exports.
Virus indexing capacity for planting material.
Aflatoxin controls for groundnuts.
Conversely, certain capacity-building options are consistently ranked as low priority, notably:
Pesticide residue testing capacity.
Pesticide controls for maize.
Animal health controls for day old chicks.
Some other capacity-building options are judged to be of high priority, although are more sensitive to
changes in the decision criteria and/or weights, for example compliance with SPS requirements for
honey exports. Further, the ranking of aflatoxin controls for maize is highly sensitive to assumptions
over trade impacts and is certainly in need of closer examination.
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