Diploma Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: 1, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Aim of this Diploma-Thesis is to identify possibilities to reduce the certification costs of smallholders or small-scale producers, who want to comply with the GLOBALGAP standard version 3.0-2_SEP07. Therefore, an analysis of participatory guarantee systems, which exist in the organic sector, was done to identify principles of these systems, which could be implemented into GLOBALGAP. These ideas were discussed in terms of interview with selected experts.