Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?

Bacon, Christopher M.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.10.002

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“…These survey results are consistent with case study results reported from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Tanzania, (Bacon 2005;Parrish, Luzadis, and Bentley 2005;Raynolds, Murray and Taylor 2004;Taylor, Murray and Raynolds 2005). This benefit transfer translates into modest but measurable improvements in quality of life, health, education, material comforts, social participation, technical and social assistance, and even sustainable agricultural practices.…”

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Market Disintermediation and Producer Value Capture: The Case of Fair Trade Coffee in Nicaragua, Peru, and Guatemala

Arnould¹,

Plastina²,

Ball³

2007

Advances in International Management

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Market Disintermediation and Producer Value Capture: The Case of Fair Trade Coffee in Nicaragua, Peru, and Guatemala

Arnould¹,

Plastina²,

Ball³

2007

Advances in International Management

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“…In addition, in the long run the growing supply of 'sustainable certificated coffee' (e.g. organic, fairtrade, forest friendly) will reduce price premiums (Killian et al, 2006) or the farmers will not actually receive this premium price (Bacon, 2005), while the diversification of coffee with another cash crop can economically support family farming (Coelli;Fleming, 2004;González;Perilla;Pulido, 2010).…”

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Economic Analisys of a Coffee-Banana System of a Family-Based Agriculture at the Atlantic Forest Zone, Brazil

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Agroforestry systems can reduce the risks of investing in just one crop. However, there are uncertainties like other agricultural and forestry activities. Therefore, there is the need for economic studies under conditions of economic risk of agroforestry systems. This work reports an analysis of the main components of costs and revenues of an agroforestry system with coffee and banana, as well as an analysis of its economic performance through indicators: net present value, equivalent period benefit (or cost), family labor revenue and a sensitivity analysis of net present value. The main cost components in the system are the human labor and mineral and organic fertilizers applied in coffee, and the costs for the production of coffee outweigh the costs of banana production. The monthly income from the production of bananas balances the costs of coffee production, generating a positive cash flow in the studied period. Financial indicators showed positive values, demonstrating the economic viability of the system with coffee and banana. The agroforestry system is economically feasible, even with variations of ± 20% in production costs and selling prices of their products. Variables that showed greater sensitivity on the net present value were the selling price of coffee and bananas, and the cost of coffee production.Index terms: Musa spp.; net present value; family labor revenue; sensitivity analysis. REsUMOOs sistemas agroflorestais podem reduzir os riscos de investimento em uma só cultura, no entanto, apresentam incertezas como outras atividades agrícolas e florestais. Por isso, a necessidade de realizar estudos econômicos sob condições de risco ou de sensibilidade dos sistemas agroflorestais. Objetivou-se, neste estudo, determinar os principais componentes de custos e receitas de um sistema agroflorestal com cafeeiros e bananeiras, bem como analisar a rentabilidade econômica do sistema agroflorestal por meio dos indicadores: valor presente líquido, benefício (ou custo) período equivalente e remuneração da mão de obra familiar e a análise de sensibilidade, verificando o efeito no valor presente líquido. Observamos que os principais componentes de custos no sistema agroflorestal são a mão de obra e os adubos minerais e orgânicos aplicados nos cafeeiros, sendo que os custos para a produção do café são superiores aos da produção da banana. A receita mensal da produção das bananas equilibra os custos de produção cafeeira, gerando um fluxo de caixa positivo no período estudado. Os indicadores financeiros apresentaram valores positivos, demonstrando a viabilidade econômica do sistema agroflorestal com cafeeiros e bananeiras. O sistema agroflorestal é viável, economicamente, mesmo com variações de ± 20% nas variáveis de produção e venda de seus produtos. As variáveis que apresentaram maior sensibilidade no valor presente líquido foram o preço de venda do café e da banana, e o custo de produção cafeeira.Termos para indexação: Musa spp.; valor presente líquido; receita da mão de obra familiar; análise de sensibili...

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“…In many cases such as in coffee industry, producers (coffee farmers) obtain a very small fraction of surplus because there are too many middlemen in the supply chain network. See for example Bacon (2005) for a related empirical analysis of the coffee global supply chain and the recent shift in its market structure.…”

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Searching and bargaining with middlemen

Nguyễn

Subramanian

Berry

2013

2013 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton)

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We study decentralized markets with the presence of middlemen, modeled by a non-cooperative bargaining game in trading networks. Our goal is to investigate how the network structure of the market and the role of middlemen influence the market's efficiency and fairness. We introduce the concept of limit stationary equilibrium in a general trading network and use it to analyze how competition among middlemen is influenced by the network structure, how endogenous delay emerges in trade and how surplus is shared between producers and consumers.

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Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?

Cited by 607 publications

References 27 publications

Market Disintermediation and Producer Value Capture: The Case of Fair Trade Coffee in Nicaragua, Peru, and Guatemala

Market Disintermediation and Producer Value Capture: The Case of Fair Trade Coffee in Nicaragua, Peru, and Guatemala

Economic Analisys of a Coffee-Banana System of a Family-Based Agriculture at the Atlantic Forest Zone, Brazil

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