The research addresses the economic problem of deforestation. A contributing factor to deforestation is coffee … production. Coffee is an indigenous plant that is naturally occurring in the native tropical forests. However, conventional … coffee is grown on cleared forest soil. In the native forest there is the potential for additional fruits (bananas, mangoes …

In Honduras, traditional coffee processing is the cause of two major problems: poor coffee quality and contaminated … given the possibility of replacing traditional coffee processing plants with a network of improved ecological plants. For … different levels of contamination the model determines the optimal location and size of new coffee processing plants along river …

producer-level effects of organic coffee certification in southeast Colombia. We find that certification improves coffee …

also the livelihoods of small scale farmers in Central America. This is done in the context of small holder coffee … agroforestry systems in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, where vulnerability to coffee price fluctuations and uncertainties in the … services as shade coffee. The dismantling of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 and price stabilization schemes (Costa …

leverage in the Brazilian agribusiness sector using the model of Rajanand Zingales (1995). In the definition of the sample …

agribusiness has been variable. Two recent ACIAR studies concluded that there may be more to linking smallholders with the … agribusiness sector than individual smallholder characteristics. This paper hypothesizes that social capital influences the ability … of individual smallholders to take advantage of emerging agribusiness opportunities. It outlines a project proposed by …

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org …