Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?

By Chris Bacon. 2004

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The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa (2009, background): “…compensate for organic agriculture’s normally lower yields), 1 none of the handful of existing economic studies of organic farming in the tropics (Bacon, 2005; Bray, Sanchez, & Murphy, 2002; Carpenter, 2003; Damiani, 2002; Lyngbaek, Muschler, & Sinclair, 2001; Van der Vossen, 2005) report…”
Environmental-economic benefits and trade-offs on sustainably certified coffee farms (2017, background): “Alt-97 hough a small coffee producer (less than 2% of global production) it has been one of the pioneering 98 countries in organic and Fairtrade certification (Bacon 2005) and both small-scale and large-scale 99 farmers use the major certification standards.”
Forest coffee certification in Ethiopia: Economic boon or ecological bane? (2011, background): “For example, Bacon (2005) found in the Nicaraguan context that Fair trade and organic networks can provide security and increased income, but do not offset the many factors leading to a general decline in quality of life for the farmers.”
Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes (2007, background): “This is not a trivial task, as often a disproportionate part of price premium can be off-channelled to traders and middlemen (Bacon, 2005).”
Guides for value chain development: a comparative review (2015, background): “…in which smallholders are considered to have a comparative advantage – for example, specialty crops like coffee and horticulture that require high labour inputs – has been considered an opportunity to combine economic growth and poverty-reduction goals (Bacon, 2005; Weinberger and Lumpkin, 2007).”
Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “When facing urgent cash needs, organic farmers sell to local traders at lower prices but in return for immediate cash (Bacon 2005, Beuchelt & Zeller 2011, Valkila 2009).”
Climate change adaptation, mitigation and livelihood benefits in coffee production: where are the synergies? (2014, background): “Coffee producers face major challenges to meet livelihood needs due to their small value shares in the coffee supply chain and volatile market prices, now compounded by climate change (Bacon 2005; Schroth et al. 2009; Läderach et al. 2011b).”
The Economics of Fair Trade (2014, background): “Bacon (2005) examines the sales price of coffee during the coffee price crisis of 2000/2001 for a sample of 228 coffee farmers from Nicaragua and finds that Fair Trade–certified farmers obtained significantly higher prices for their coffee.”
Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, methodology): “Bacon (2005) found a majority of Fair trade and Organic farmers in Nicaragua reported a decline in their quality of life, and this was regardless of certification status, indicating that the premiums offered by alternative markets were insufficient to offset worsening economic conditions more…”
The mirror of consumption: Celebritization, developmental consumption and the shifting cultural politics of fair trade (2010, background): “While tied somewhat to the wider shifts to ‘quality’ foods more broadly (Goodman and Goodman, 2009; Goodman, 2003) and the growth of the specialty coffee sector (Bacon, 2005), fair trade’s turn to quality and its parallel moves into the mainstream has had multiple and far-reaching effects.”
Does Fair Trade Deliver on Its Core Value Proposition? Effects on Income, Educational Attainment, and Health in Three Countries (2009, methodology): “We employed a survey methodology to compare TF cooperative participants and nonparticipating farmers on several socioeconomic indicators of well-being.”
Measuring the impact of fair trade on development (2009, background): “While earlier field studies tend to indicate substantial net income effects (Jaffee 2007 ; Becchetti and Constantino 2008 ) and reduced income vulnerability arising from FT (Bacon 2004 ), they seldom correct for intrinsic differences between households in term of farm size, location, and resource”
Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “The field research conducted at this time showed several livelihood and organizational benefits but identified potential limits (Raynolds, 2002; Jaffee, 2007; Bacon, 2005).”
Building Value at the Top and the Bottom of the Global Supply Chain: MNC-NGO Partnerships (2008, background): “An estimated 85 percent of Central America’s coffee farmers are micro and small-scale producers.(33) Similarly, very small farms constitute 92 percent of all Mexican coffee farms.”