The Effects of Fair Trade on Affiliated Producers: An Impact Analysis on Kenyan Farmers

By Leonardo Becchetti, Marco Costantino. 2008

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Gender Studies, Strategy and Management

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The Impact of Fair Trade Certification for Coffee Farmers in Peru (2012, background): “FT farmers were also found successful in expanding their production, experienced greater satisfaction with the prices obtained for their crop, and reached improvements in food consumption and living conditions that resulted in a significant drop in child mortality (Becchetti & Costantino, 2008).”
Sustainability Standards, Gender, and Nutrition among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (2016, methodology): “Becchetti and Costantino (2008) used a relatively simple dietary quality index.”
Fair Trade/Organic Coffee, Rural Livelihoods, and the "Agrarian Question": Southern Mexican Coffee Families in Transition (2011, unknown): “While some Fair Trade-related studies have emerged in recent years, Becchetti and Constantino (2008) state that, “the literature on FT [Fair Trade] impact analyses is surprisingly scarce, given the importance of evaluating claims that participation in the FT chain brings advantages to producers.””
Profits and poverty: Certification's troubled link for Nicaragua's organic and fairtrade coffee producers (2011, background): “We found very few quantitative studies evaluating organic or fairtrade certification schemes (Arnould et al., 2009; Bacon, 2005; Becchetti and Costantino, 2008; Bolwig et al., 2009) based on a random sample with a treatment and control group.”
The ambivalent impact of coffee certification on farmers' welfare: A matched panel approach for cooperatives in Central Kenya (2016, background): “Arnould, Plastina, and Ball (2009) and Becchetti and Costantino (2008) observe positive changes in education and health outcomes related to Fairtrade certification.”
Measuring the impact of fair trade on development (2009, background): “While earlier field studies tend to indicate substantial net income effects (Jaffee 2007; Becchetti and Constantino 2008) and reduced”