The marketing of coffee through group-based, certified market channels is often promoted by governments and donors as a …

Forming and using cooperatives as marketing channel is usually advised to African smallholder farmers for overcoming … the constraint of market access. However, limited evidence of cooperative behavior in marketing has been observed. In this … results reveal that the commitment to membership depends on the assessment of prices offered by the marketing channels, the …

-stage model is used to analyze farmers' marketing decisions and their effect on the prices received. This procedure allows us to … control for the endogeneity bias introduced by the marketing choice. Our results indicate that farmers participating in the …