This paper examines the capacities of smallholders in Nicaragua to exploit new linkages to certified coffee markets … following the coffee crisis. Data on livelihood assets were collected from 292 households, which were clustered to test how … investments in the scale or productivity of coffee, and most continued to depend heavily on subsistence production and seasonal …

International markets are increasingly signaling demand for quality-differentiated coffee, which the Colombian Coffee … approach with and for the FNC to identify regional causal relationships between coffee quality and environmental … characteristics as bases for labels of denomination of origin. Environmental differences between coffee-growing areas in the …

A steep decline in coffee prices at the producer level led to considerable pressure for farmers in Costa Rica and … in specialty markets and to estimate separate production functions for specialty and conventional coffee farmers allowing … of additional income activities, experience in coffee cultivation, and membership in cooperatives. Based on the results …

I use a representative sample of coffee growing households in southern Mexico to estimate the price premium and gross … growing coffee. More broadly speaking, the finding raises questions about the persistence of substantial price premiums …

coffee cooperatives in Rwanda. Local (independent) traders still constitute a major market for coffee producers. Yet … importance of this phenomenon of double side-selling. We collected data from a sample of 170 coffee farmers. We use a probit … transaction costs involved in the trade of coffee. Membership characteristics include easy access to labour, land tenure, risk …