Fair Trade organic coffee production in Nicaragua — Sustainable development or a poverty trap?

By Joni Valkila. 2009

303 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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In Business and International Management

1. M. Qaim
2. Brian Chiputwa
3. Eva‐Marie Meemken
4. D. Spielman
5. J. Neilson
6. J. Bray
7. Ruerd Ruben
8. Manfred Zeller

In Plant Science

1. M. Qaim
2. Brian Chiputwa
3. Eva‐Marie Meemken
4. J. Neilson
5. J. Bray
6. D. Spielman
7. Manfred Zeller
8. Ruerd Ruben

In Strategy and Management

1. M. Qaim
2. Brian Chiputwa
3. J. Neilson
4. Eva‐Marie Meemken
5. J. Bray
6. D. Spielman
7. Manfred Zeller
8. Ruerd Ruben

Citations in the corpus

• Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes (2013, background): “As there are costs associated with certification schemes, their ability to engage the most marginalized and impoverished farmers remains questionable (Valkila, 2009).”
• The ambivalent impact of coffee certification on farmers' welfare: A matched panel approach for cooperatives in Central Kenya (2016, background): “3 Valkila (2009) and Valkila and Nygren (2010) point to the requirements of input use and labor intensification for obtaining certification that lead to higher costs and lower net margins.”
• Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “Yield gaps tend to increase during the process of economic development (Valkila 2009).”
• Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda (2015, methodology): “Concerning the methods used, many impact studies do not control for possible selection bias (Utting-Chamorro, 2005; Bacon et al., 2008; Valkila, 2009; Valkila & Nygren, 2010; Beuchelt & Zeller, 2011), so it is unclear whether observed differences between certified and non-certified farmers are…”
• The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: A systematic review (2018, background): “Floor price interventions are mostly effective during commodity price slumps, for instance in coffee, a highly volatile commodity (Dowdall 2012, Milford 2014, Valkila 2009).”
• Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “However, research also shows that the higher prices associated with fair trade and organic markets, even when coupled with international development funding to fair trade co-ops, do not necessarily cover additional costs (Barham and Weber, 2012), and as a single strategy are insufficient to ensure s”
• Profits and poverty: Certification's troubled link for Nicaragua's organic and fairtrade coffee producers (2011, background): “Other studies mention lower production costs (Nigh, 1997; Valkila, 2009).”
• The Impact of Fair Trade Certification for Coffee Farmers in Peru (2012, unknown): “Field research by Valkila (2009) and Valkila and Nygren (2009) focussing on FT organic farmers in Northern Nicaragua are far more critical.”
• Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “Valkila (2009) also reported fewer inputs for organic production, but this was offset by increased labour costs, and tougher working conditions endured by producers.”