Do Private Sustainability Standards Contribute to Poverty Alleviation ? A Comparison of Different Coffee Certification Schemes in Ethiopia

Titre Do Private Sustainability Standards Contribute to Poverty Alleviation ? A Comparison of Different Coffee Certification Schemes in Ethiopia
Titre traduit Les normes privées durables contribuent-elles à la réduction de la pauvreté ? Comparaison de différents schémas de certification du café en Éthiopie
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Date 2015/03
Pagination ou Durée d'écoute 28 p.
Notes Université de Louvain (Belgique), Département de la terre et des Sciences de l’Environnement – Bioeconomics Working Papers Series, Working Paper 2015/03
Résumé Abstract : «Private sustainability standards are spreading rapidly in the agrifood sector and are especially important in trade with developing countries. In this paper we analyze the impact of sustainability standards in the smallholder coffee sector in Ethiopia. We look at Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance certification in a comparative way. We use cross -sectional survey data from a sample of 427 coffee farmers in the Jimma and Kaffa zones of Ethiopia, with all sampled farmers being member of a coffee cooperative. We analyze the impact of certification to different standards on poverty, income, yield and farm gate prices in order to unravel the channels of possible poverty reducing effects. We use logit, tobit and OLS regression models and attempt to control for cooperative level heterogeneity. We find that Rainforest Alliance certification improves rural income by 72% and reduces the incidence and depth of poverty by 25% and 31% respectively while Fairtrade and Organic certification have no effect. We find that the positive effect of Rainforest Alliance mainly comes from a large impact on producer prices that offsets a negative impact on yields. Also, Fairtrade certification is found to lead to higher producer prices, but to a much smaller extent than Rainforest Alliance, and the price effect does not lead to an overall effect on farmers’ income and poverty reduction.»

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