The marketing of coffee through group-based, certified market channels is often promoted by governments and donors as a …, environmentally and health conscious consumers in recent years. While coffee certification programs have been in place for over … failure of certification schemes. We use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, comparing small-scale coffee …

This paper is focused on analyzing notification effects on TBT and SPS Agreements of worldwide green coffee exports. A … zero. Results indicated that notifications TBT would negatively affect coffee exports during the period from 1996 to 2010 …

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 …

Historically low prices in the conventional coffee market have caused financial and social hardship among coffee … specialty coffee segment do in fact receive higher prices than those participating in conventional channels. Additionally, we … coffee and analogously the prices that they receive. Based on these results it seems that efforts to increase participation …

general, results imply that coffee growers’ benefit little from positive changes in the world price compared with participants … in the auction markets. This is true given the presence of information asymmetry in the coffee value chain characterized …

potential areas experience high maize yields, with maize grown alongside major cash crops such as tea and coffee. In contrast …

many atomistic smallholders and a few exporters. The model provides the tools needed to simulate the changes in farm …

The literature on commercial transformation of smallholders makes little distinction between market orientation and …-pronged approach: improving market orientation of smallholders at production level, and facilitation of market entry and participation …: commercialization, smallholders, market orientation, market participation. …