three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in … Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score matching with multiple treatments, we find that Fairtrade certification …

More and more coffee-producing countries establish geographical indications (GIs) for their coffees. GIs are not only … strategic tool to enter the growing specialty coffee market. Whereas the importance of regional reputation is quite well …-documented in the empirical literature on wine, empirical evidence for regional reputational effects on coffee prices is rather …

to ascertain the implicit price paid by Italian consumers for the fair trade content of coffee and how this implicit … regression where the dependant variable is the coffee price while the regressors are coffee characteristics (fair trade content … recently, in supermarkets and shopping centres. The fair trade product with the highest market share is coffee. This study aims …

This paper estimates trade duration of raw coffee exports into the European Union (EU) market comparing different … discrete-time duration models using monthly trade panel data from 1988 to 2013. As coffee is an important export commodity and … essential. Results reveal that major gravity model variables also explain duration of EU coffee imports. Moreover, we find that …

The commodity nature of green coffee is the main cause of “the coffee paradox” (decreasing prices at production level … the supply chain would be to “decommodify” the coffee market not only at the final consumer level, but also at the … production area ). The aim of this article is to question the ability of GIs to “decommodify” the coffee market also on the …

in the so-called specialty coffee sector. Similar to the approach for wine in France and Italy, more and more coffee …-producing countries try to establish appellations systems for coffee. Whereas some countries and regions such as Colombia or Jamaica have … already legally protected GIs for coffee, most coffee GIs are still informal meaning that no legal protection has been …

(LSMS-ISA) dataset on Uganda established by the World Bank to test these hypotheses. The results show that higher …

prices on Uganda. Previous impact analysis studies suggested that the food price shock increased poverty in Uganda as there … Uganda as a result of external price shocks in the 2006-08 period. … are more net food buyer than net food seller households. We show that the agriculture commodity price shocks were poverty …