This paper aimed to study the production behavior of the coffee production and the existing relationships in the factor …

comparative performance from the Minas Gerais “Cerrado†coffee producers and the south-western conventional coffee producers …-west. The favorable results obtained by the Minas Gerais “Cerrado†coffee producers were related to the differences in … productive costs and coffee quality. Improved product quality and productive management were the most relevant aspects found to …

conventional farming to the organic one. In the coffee case, the conversion from conventional to the organic system may bring some … producer. Thus, this research aims to verify the economic viability of the organic coffee production of a rural property called … used linear programming to maximize profit and minimize costs of coffee production in two scenarios. The conversion …

transportation costs of the Brazilian exports of green coffee, one of the major export products of Brazil. Additionally, it intended … determinants of the costs of transports of green coffee. In second place, an analysis was accomplished adding to the basic gravity … data, from 2000 to 2006. Results, as expected, indicated that the expenses with transportation in the green coffee exports …

Coffee producers in many parts of the world have the option of either becoming a member of and selling their coffee to … that both coffee plot size and number of working household members influence the producers’ decision on sales channel …

Coffee is the most widely commercialized tropical product on the international market. The 2009/10 crop had an … estimated value of $15.4 billion, with 93.4 million bags exported. According to the International Coffee Organization (ICO, 2011 …), the coffee sector employed around 26 million people in 56 producing countries and over 100 exporting countries. But how …

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

, b) sustainable management of the forest (e.g. by growing high-quality, semi-forest coffee), and c) strict conservation …

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 …