Is sustainable agriculture a viable strategy to improve farm income in Central America? A case study on coffee

By Bernard Kilian, Connie Jones, Lawrence R. Pratt, Andrés Villalobos. 2006

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Subfields: Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Building Value at the Top and the Bottom of the Global Supply Chain: MNC-NGO Partnerships (2008, background): “In addition, small-scale farmers face an information gap when making decisions about whether or not to strive for certification.(87) They lack production cost information and reliable market price data.”
National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains (2012, background): “Third, we need more systematic studies on the actual impact of standards certification on local communities, growing practices and environmental sustainability (see also Giovannucci & Villalobos, 2007; Bolwig et al., 2008; Kilian et al., 2006).”
Impacts of Fair Trade certification on coffee farmers, cooperatives, and laborers in Nicaragua (2010, background): “In 2004, about 5.3 million pounds of Fair Tradelabeled coffee was exported from Nicaragua, representing 3% of the green coffee exported from the country.5 About half of the Fair Trade labeled coffee was also organically certified (CETREX 2007; Kilian et al. 2006).”
Empowering Coffee Traders? The Coffee Value Chain from Nicaraguan Fair Trade Farmers to Finnish Consumers (2010, background): “At the same time, some researchers have reported that margins charged by roasters and retailers for Fair Trade and other certified products are large (Bacon et al., 2008, pp. 344–345; Kilian et al., 2006; Mendoza and Bastiaensen, 2003; Zehner, 2002).”
Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods (2017, background): “Both Gobbi (2000) and Kilian et al. (2006) found sustainable management practices, such as eliminating chemical fertilizers or increasing the number of shade trees negatively influence total yield per hectare.”
Fair Trade organic coffee production in Nicaragua — Sustainable development or a poverty trap? (2009, background): “This confirms an earlier observation that organic premiums tend to be higher whenmainstreammarket prices are low (Kilian et al., 2006).”
Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure Farmer Livelihoods? The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade Cooperatives (2008, background): “These markets, including certified Fair Trade, organic, and Rainforest Alliance coffees, have expanded rapidly since the late 1990s (Daviron & Ponte, 2005; Kilian et al., 2006).”
Mainstreaming Sustainable Coffee (2013, unknown): “However, this seems increasingly insufficient to justify organic farming on economic grounds (Giovannucci and Villalobos, 2007; Kilian et al., 2006).”