We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee producer …, including an elimination of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earnings improved dramatically …

We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee … sector, including an elimination of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earn-ings improved …

We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee … sector, including an elimi-nation of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earnings increased … quality of coffee improved only slightly over this time, but the quantity exported increased by 50 percent, explained by both …

Coffee is Ethiopia’s most important export commodity, cultivated by over 6 million smallholder farmers in the country …, and accounting for about one-third of the country’s commodity exports. While coffee production has increased over the last … decade, coffee yields are low and several constraints to improved productivity remain. With two-three decades old and low …