Effects of Fair Trade and organic certifications on small-scale coffee farmer households in Central America and Mexico

By V. E. Méndez, Chris Bacon, Meryl Olson, Seth Petchers, Doribel Herrador, C. Carranza, L. Trujillo, Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti, A. Cordon, A. Mendoza. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 2010

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

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In Business and International Management

1. J. Neilson
2. J. Bray
3. R. Fort
4. Chris Bacon
5. Ruerd Ruben
6. V. E. Méndez
7. J. Fanzo
8. Ruth S. DeFries

In Plant Science

1. R. Fort
2. J. Neilson
3. J. Bray
4. Chris Bacon
5. V. E. Méndez
6. Ruerd Ruben
7. Peter Läderach
8. Shalene Jha

In Strategy and Management

1. J. Neilson
2. J. Bray
3. R. Fort
4. Chris Bacon
5. V. E. Méndez
6. Ruerd Ruben
7. J. Fanzo
8. Ruth S. DeFries

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “For example, farmers in Mexico and Central America often also cultivate corn-bean-squash systems and manage pastures (Méndez et al. 2010a; Philpott et al. 2007); coffee smallholders in Brazil farm sweet potato, sugar cane, black pepper and various fruit crops (Steward 2007); and farmers in…”
• Is voluntary certification of tropical agricultural commodities achieving sustainability goals for small-scale producers? A review of the evidence (2017, background): “…2005, Bacon et al 2008, Bacon et al 2014, Elder et al 2012, Elder et al 2013, Fort and Ruben 2009b, Gockowski et al 2013, Jacobi et al 2015, Jaffee 2009, Lyngbaek et al 2001, Melo and Wolf 2005, Mendez et al 2010, Ochieng et al 2013, Philpott et al 2007, Saswattecha et al 2015, Dumont et al 2014).”
• The Impact of Fair Trade Certification for Coffee Farmers in Peru (2012, background): “Nelson and Pound (2009) provide a concise overview of the evidence base regarding FT impact in different result areas.”
• Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “It was widely reported that certified supply chains were associated with unreliable or delayed payments (Utting 2009; Valkila 2009; Mendez et al. 2010; El Ouaamari & Cochet 2014; Chiputwa et al. 2015).”
• The ambivalent impact of coffee certification on farmers' welfare: A matched panel approach for cooperatives in Central Kenya (2016, background): “Mendez et al. (2010) demonstrate that Fairtrade-certified farmers receive better prices and higher coffee revenues, but sales to certified markets were far too limited for reaching sustainable livelihood effects.”
• Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, methodology): “The regression analysis confirms the importance of the corn and bean fields, which Mesoamerican farmers have managed in their milpa production systems for thousands of years (Isakson, 2009).”
• 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).”