Do farmers benefit from participating in specialty markets and cooperatives? The case of coffee marketing in Costa Rica1

By M. Wollni, Manfred Zeller. 2007

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Qaim
2. M. Maertens
3. Elisabeth Fischer
4. Ellen Verhofstadt
5. Brian Chiputwa
6. J. Bijman
7. G. Abebe
8. A. Royer

In Plant Science

1. M. Qaim
2. Brian Chiputwa
3. J. Neilson
4. J. Bray
5. J. Weber
6. B. Shiferaw
7. Elisabeth Fischer
8. D. Spielman

In Strategy and Management

1. M. Qaim
2. Brian Chiputwa
3. J. Neilson
4. J. Bray
5. J. Weber
6. Ellen Verhofstadt
7. M. Maertens
8. B. Shiferaw

Citations in the corpus

• Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “Wollni and Zeller (2007) found that coffee cooperatives in Costa Rica facilitated small-scale growers’ participation in specialty markets with higher prices.”
• Supermarkets, farm household income, and poverty: Insights from Kenya (2011, background): “On the other hand there are also studies on the welfare effects of global supply chains (Bolwig et al., 2009; Maertens and Swinnen, 2009; Minten et al., 2009; Miyata et al., 2009; Warning and Key, 2002; Wollni and Zeller, 2007).”
• Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “Wollni and Zeller (2007) showed that in Costa Rica, coffee marketing through cooperatives increased average price obtained by 0.05 US$/lb.”
• Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “Many studies found a positive impact on farm-gate coffee prices (e.g. Kilian et al. 2006; Wollni & Zeller 2007; Bolwig et al. 2009; Mendez et al. 2010; Rueda & Lambin 2013).”
• Exploring double side-selling in cooperatives, case study of four coffee cooperatives in Rwanda (2013, methodology): “There is ample evidence for Latin American fair trade cooperatives (see, e.g., Wollni and Zeller (2007), Chaddad and Boland (2009), Bacon (2010), Valkila and Nygren (2010) and Barham et al. (2011)), but recent work on African coffee cooperatives is scarce.”
• Forest coffee certification in Ethiopia: Economic boon or ecological bane? (2011, background): “Wollni and Zeller (2007 ) use data from coffee farmers in Costa Rica and determine the factors which make farmers participate in a specialty coffee market.”
• Heterogeneous impact of cooperative membership on farmers’ welfare in Rwanda (2015, background): “3 market participation, and on the likelihood to adopt improved technologies (e.g. Abebaw and Haile, 2013; Bernard et al., 2008; Bernard and Taffesse, 2012; Fisher and Qaim, 2012a; Francesconi and Heerink, 2010; Holloway et al., 2000; Ito et al., 2012; Shiferaw et al., 2009; Verhofstadt and Maertens”
• Smallholder Farmers and Collective Action: What Determines the Intensity of Participation? (2014, background): “This partly overlaps with studies on the impacts of group membership in terms of market access, prices, and income (Wollni and Zeller 2007; Bernard et al. 2008; Roy and Thorat 2008).”
• Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda (2015, result): “This is in line with expectations and with studies conducted in other settings (e.g., Bacon, 2005; Wollni & Zeller, 2007).”
• How much more do growers receive for Fair Trade-organic coffee? (2011, background): “Wollni and Zeller (2007) study the average price received by 216 farmers in Costa Rica in 2003.”
• Cooperative membership and dairy performance among smallholders in Ethiopia (2016, background): “Wollini and Zeller (2007) have also found cooperative membership to impact positively on prices and participation in specialty markets among coffee growers in Costa Rica.”
• Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China (2018, background): “Secondly, cooperatives can support the information flow between farmers and the market and thus help farmers to meet the specific requirements of high-value added food markets (Wollni and Zeller, 2007).”