Certification and labeling initiatives that seek to enhance environmental and social sustainability are growing rapidly …. This article analyzes the expansion of these private regulatory efforts in the coffee sector. We compare the five major … third-party certifications – the Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, Utz Kapeh, and Shade/Bird Friendly initiatives …

three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in … Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score matching with multiple treatments, we find that Fairtrade certification … certification schemes, no significant impacts are found. Institutional factors that may explain differential impacts are discussed …

The coffee segment that is known as sustainable has grown much faster than nearly any other industry segment in the … on the global trade volumes for all of the certified (or verified) coffee in the past decade and the distribution by …

. We compare the development of and contestation over the standards for both certified organic and certified fair trade … between the organic and fair trade cases. Analyzing these two cases provides useful insights into the strategic approaches …

Coffee is the leading agricultural sector in terms of both the number and frequent use of social and environmental … certification. This fast-growing category of certified sustainable coffees has emerged from almost negligible quantities in the late … 1990s to approximately 4% of global green coffee exports in 2006 making it a multi-billion dollar segment of the industry …