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Assessing the Income Effects of Group Certification for Smallholder Coffee Farmers: Agent-based Simulation in Uganda

Modeling study
Journal article

Published 2017 by The Agricultural Economics Society. Authored by Latynskiy, E. and Berger, T.

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Research Focus

Sustainability Approaches:

Voluntary Sustainability Standards

Sustainability Tools:

UTZ

Sustainability Issues:

Participant costs and benefits

Outcomes of Interest:

Price premiums
Quality of product
Sales of product
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Specific Themes:

Finance
Smallholders

Sectors:

Agriculture

Products:

Coffee

Sustainable Development Goals:

SDG 12 - Responsible Production and Consumption
Region/Country:

Geographies:

Africa

Countries:

Uganda

Summary

Voluntary sustainability standards, aimed at improving the environmental, social and economic aspects of agricultural production and trade, are becoming increasingly common. The coffee sector is a prime example, where sustainability certification could improve livelihoods for poor smallholders. However, as individual production volumes are low, smallholder farmers need to cooperate in certification as a group, which makes impact assessment more complicated. Previous empirical studies, reporting premia of up to 30%, have neglected the costs associated with group certification. We explore the issue using an agent-based simulation of coffee producer organisations in Uganda, including the certification-related costs for farmers. Our results suggest that certification can have a small positive impact on participating households. But the added value of certification is substantially lower than the price premium, because of certification costs. Increasing both the membership of the producer groups and their deliveries of certified coffee are necessary to improve the rewards of certification. Published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Assessing the Income Effects of Group Certification for Smallholder Coffee Farmers: Agent-based Simulation in Uganda

Modeling study
Journal article

Published 2017 by The Agricultural Economics Society. Authored by Latynskiy, E. and Berger, T.

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