Coffee tree replanting is needed in Indonesia, yet a financing scheme is not available at the moment due to its economic feasibility and farmers' reluctance to reinvest. This research aims to design contract farming for coffee tree replanting in Indonesia to support coffee farmer welfare. The...

As one of the most popular drinks in the world, coffee has limitations in its complex and opaque supply chain. Consumers have difficulty verifying coffee quality according to the price they pay. However, innovative technologies such as blockchain emerge with the potential to support the coffee...

This study investigates what factors relate to the coffee farmer's cooperative affiliation decision and whether this decision impacts the farmer's cash holdings. First, we propose a cooperative affiliation model based on transaction cost economics theory. There is a lack of consensus in the...

This study measures the impact of traceability attributes on international buyers' willingness to pay for coffee produced in Ethiopia and the impact of accurate information on the production location of the coffee on the pricing according to its type and grade. Two sets of regressions models...

In the Central Highlands of Vietnam, coffee (Coffea canephora) and pepper (Peper nigrum) farmers have started transitioning from monoculture practices towards intercropping and agroforestry practices. Interviews of 220 farmers were conducted in the three provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Gia...

This chapter investigates the coffee value chain in Latin America. By drawing on the concept of just transitions as a “connective tissue” between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the discussion zooms in on the promise of agroforestry for environmental upgrading. The chapter...

Coffee is one of the most important internationally traded commodities. Most of the ca. USD 200 billion value that coffee generates globally accrues to brands, retailers, and supply chain operators; yet most of the risks are borne by the producers at origin countries. Intangibles associated with...

The rapid expansion of coffee plantations in tropical area at the cost of natural forest may suppress the methane (CH4) uptake and change the soil fertility. However, observations on soil CH4 uptake rates and the ecological consequence studies on coffee-based plantations are sparse. The...

A grand challenge under climate change is water management, particularly in intensively farmed areas. This paper draws on the case of Robusta coffee farming in the Central Highlands of Vietnam to illustrate a water saving innovative tool that supports high productivity and sustainable farming....

Uganda's innovation performance in recent years has consistently outpaced other low-income and Sub-Saharan African countries. Though encouraging, this nascent progress will only benefit the broader Ugandan population if policy makers address specific constraints in the innovation systems of the...

Background: This research aims to identify how blockchain technology could support the ecological embeddedness of the coffee supply chain. Ecological embeddedness is a subset of the circular economy (CE) that demands legitimacy through design changes to product, production and/or packaging for...

Coffee as being the world’s second most legally traded commodity after petroleum and it is consumed all over the world. Turkish Coffee is unique with the way coffee is made and served and has an important place in everyday culture of Turkish society. The transformation of the coffee culture of...

Ethiopia is one of the largest and oldest coffee-producing countries in the world; it is internationally recognised for having some of the rarest and most sought-after varieties of arabica coffee, which earns a premium compared to other strains and varieties, such as robusta. The country is also...

Ethiopia is one of the largest and oldest coffee-producing countries in the world; it is internationally recognised for having some of the rarest and most sought-after varieties of arabica coffee, which earns a premium compared to other strains and varieties, such as robusta. The country is also...

In the light of a changing climate, resilient coffee varieties and adoption of improved agricultural practices are needed. Agronomic studies have promoted the first generation of Coffea arabica hybrid cultivars (F1 hybrids) as resistant to pest and diseases and able to grow under shade. Thus,...

This paper applies time series data extracted from different global open data sources to investigate GDP per capita convergence for coffee producing and re-exporting countries. Inspired by the Solow-Swan model, the paper tests the proposition that poorer countries grow faster than richer...

Small-scale enterprises are lauded around the world for their contribution to economic development. Resources and capabilities play an important role as accelerators of entrepreneurial activity and also increase enterprise performance. This research strived to understand how Microfinance...

Deforestation in the tropics is a critical issue that interacts with global environmental changes, and the mediating role of negative agricultural shocks is ambiguous. We investigate the impact of the massive epidemic of coffee leaf rust (CLR) that affected Central America from 2012 on...

Agriculture has been and continues to assume center stage in the economic policy of Ethiopia. Coffee is one of the most vital sources of income for many coffee growers and continues to be still the leading export commodity in the national economy of Ethiopia. Despite the economic use, the...

Supplier selection has become one of the core elements of supply chain management because suppliers affect a company's bottom line and supply chain performance directly. Supplier selection is a complex decision-making process that includes multiple criteria and a set of supplier alternatives....

The major objective of this study was to examine the impact of Coffee exports on economic growth in Ethiopia. The study employed an extended generalized Cobb–Douglas production function model using data from the National Bank of Ethiopia and World Bank data base from 1980 to 2017. All the...

Coffee is part of the Filipino culture for centuries and one of the major incomes for many farmers in the Philippines. This research study seeks to understand the dynamics of the coffee industry and identify the different types of coffee that is existing and in demand in the market and...

World coffee prices may have crucial implications on domestic prices of coffee. However, empirical evidence on the effect of world coffee prices on the price of coffee traded at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is very scant. The main objective of this study is to analyze the response of...

This DIIS Working Paper presents key characteristics of each of the six cases including main crop focus, size and business model, as well as types of investors, their investment approach and the factors that motivate them. It also presents the different objectives that the investors have...

We conducted cascading phone surveys to assess the performance of Ethiopia’s main coffee value chain actors during the COVID-19 pandemic. In general, the coffee value chain actors in Ethiopia appear to have been resilient to the pandemic, despite disruptions. The share of coffee farmers who...

Current approaches to pricing have proved unable to deliver sustainable development. This study explores how the concept of ‘true price’, first proposed by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), combined with the logic of accounting can provide a novel, dynamic, comprehensive and also causal model...

A main problem in emerging countries is the reduction of poverty in rural areas with sustainable agricultural systems. This study analyses differences between agroecology (a pattern of sustainable economic development with ecological processes directed to reduce production costs and support...

The goal of this study is a comparative analysis between agroecological and conventional small coffee farms. We investigate fifteen coffee farms in the East region of Minas Gerais, a Brazilian rural region based on coffee production, using a multicriteria analysis (MCA) with economic, social and...

Over the last decades, the interest and evidence for the numerous interconnections among energy, environment and society have acquired increased importance for the international community. Indeed, processes and relationships among countries are becoming global and evolving in a complex...

In the past two decades, markets grew to accommodate no less than 435 “eco-labels” or standards such as Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and UTZ Certified, that claim some aspect of sustainability. They constitute multi-billion dollar markets and the world’s leading food and...

Credit reporting systems have become a widespread tool to assess the creditworthiness of prospective borrowers. This paper studies the implications for credit access of using them in contexts where exogenous and transitory shocks affect income and repayment. Using a novel administrative data set...

This study investigates the patterns of global coffee trade flows and identifies the major determinants of global coffee trade by incorporating RTAs as important variable. Gravity modeling with OLS and PPML estimator was employed for the analysis using panel data on bilateral coffee trade flows...

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...