Profits and poverty: Certification's troubled link for Nicaragua's organic and fairtrade coffee producers

By T. Beuchelt, Manfred Zeller. 2011

281 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. J. Neilson
4. J. Bray
5. Eva‐Marie Meemken
6. D. Spielman
7. V. E. Méndez
8. Chris Bacon

In Plant Science

1. M. Qaim
2. J. Neilson
3. J. Bray
4. Eva‐Marie Meemken
5. Brian Chiputwa
6. V. E. Méndez
7. D. Spielman
8. Eric F. Lambin

In Strategy and Management

1. M. Qaim
2. J. Neilson
3. J. Bray
4. Brian Chiputwa
5. Eva‐Marie Meemken
6. V. E. Méndez
7. D. Spielman
8. Eric F. Lambin

Citations in the corpus

• Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “Consequently, households have to hire additional labor or use more family labor (Beuchelt & Zeller 2011, Kleemann et al. 2014, Ruben & Fort 2012).”
• Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “Previous research in Nicaragua and Latin America finds that smallholder poverty and farmer debt persist, though debates about causes remain (Bacon et al., 2008; Wilson, 2010; Beuchelt and Zeller, 2011).”
• Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda (2015, methodology): “…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 really attributable to…”
• Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “Beuchelt and Zeller (2011) found improved incomes existed for organic farmers through yield improvements, but not Fair trade-organic farmers. Ruben and Zuniga (2011) and Ruben and Fort (2012) found that Fair trade farmers produce yields inferior to those of conventional producers and thus Fair trade”
• The Economic Sustainability of Certified Coffee: Recent Evidence from Mexico and Peru (2012, unknown): “…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; Beuchelt & Zeller, 2011; Bolwig et al., 2009; Mendez et al., 2010; Valkila, 2009).”
• Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges (2017, background): “Organic farmers need to hire laborers because family members were not enough to cover 528 the labor requirement fully (Beuchelt and Zeller, 2011).”
• Responding to Globalization: Impacts of Certification on Colombian Small-Scale Coffee Growers (2013, background): “The literature on the impacts of certification at the local level has focused primarily on the economic benefits farmers perceive from participating in these schemes (Blackman and Rivera 2010, STAP 2010, Beuchelt and Zeller 2011).”