The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa

By Simon Bolwig, P. Gibbon, Sam Jones. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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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.”
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value-Chain Analysis: A Conceptual Framework (2010, unknown): “Finally, a study of organic smallholder contract farming in Africa supports the case for contract farming with specific design features, especially the provision of product marketing guarantees in relation to receiving a price premium for meeting certain quality standards (Bolwig et al., 2009).”
Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption: Evidence from Honduras (2014, background): “In particular, for households that already use low levels of external inputs switching costs to organic agriculture are very low and often conversion goes hand in hand with an increase in yields resulting from the application of improved soil management practices (Bolwig et al., 2009).”
Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “However, premiums inevitably favour those producers with larger yields, who are often already more resilient to socioeconomic shocks (Bolwig et al. 2009; Valkila & Nygren 2010; Valkila 2014). Weber (2011) emphasizes that somewhat complex financial calculations are required by farmers to assess the n”
Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda (2015, methodology): “Bolwig et al. (2009) used Heckman selection models to analyze impacts of Organic certification in Uganda, showing that certified production contributes to higher farm revenues.”
Economic upgrading through global value chain participation: which policies increase the value-added gains? (2017, background): “…randomized control trial of households producing certified organic coffee beans in Uganda, for instance, scheme participation is associated with an increase in net coffee revenue of around 75 percent on average, equivalent to 12.5 percent of mean (total) household revenue (Bolwig and Gibbon 2009).”
The Economic Sustainability of Certified Coffee: Recent Evidence from Mexico and Peru (2012, unknown): “The specification in (3), enabled by multiple observations on the same grower, provides a level of robustness generally not seen in the literature on the economics of smallholder coffee production, which relies almost solely on cross sectional data (Arnould et al., 2009; Barham et al., 2011; Beuchel”
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).”