Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua

By Karla Utting-chamorro. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Brian Chiputwa
2. M. Qaim
3. D. Spielman
4. A. Mare
5. J. Neilson
6. Bradley R. Wilson
7. Manfred Zeller
8. T. Beuchelt

In Strategy and Management

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2. Brian Chiputwa
3. J. Neilson
4. J. Bray
5. D. Spielman
6. A. Mare
7. Bradley R. Wilson
8. Manfred Zeller

Citations in the corpus

• Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “In Tanzania, Fair trade was reported to have negligible direct impacts on natural capital (Parrish et al. 2005), but certified producers have been found to have a resulting positive attitude towards environmental protection (Utting-Chamorro 2005; Utting 2009; Ibnu et al. 2015).”
• Profits and poverty: Certification's troubled link for Nicaragua's organic and fairtrade coffee producers (2011, background): “Several studies conducted during the coffee crisis supported the promotion of certification schemes and showed that organic and fairtrade coffee markets tend to offer higher prices than the conventionalmarket (Bacon, 2005;Daviron andPonte, 2005; Lewinet al., 2004; Utting-Chamorro, 2005).”
• 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…”
• Sustainability Standards, Gender, and Nutrition among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (2016, background): “Several studies looked at the gender implications of Fairtrade and other standards (Lyon, 2008; Maertens & Swinnen, 2012; Ruben et al., 2009; Utting-Chamorro, 2005), although none of these studies explicitly linked gender effects with nutrition.”
• Indebted to Fair Trade? Coffee and crisis in Nicaragua (2010, background): “…for childhood education, health care and other vital development initiatives that enhanced the livelihoods of farming families (Bacon et al., 2008b; Utting-Chamorro, 2005).2 As farmers in my study area explained, they are deeply indebted to Fair Trade for aiding them to maintain access to…”
• The Impact of Fair Trade on Social and Economic Development: A Review of the Literature (2008, background): “Journal Compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Using trade as a means to achieve wider development goals is also a theme that runs through the literature (Bacon 2005; Becchetti and Costantino 2005; Biggs and Messerschmidt 2005; La Cruz 2006; Nel et al. 2007; Raynolds 2002; Utting-Chamorro 2005)”