Do coffee cooperatives benefit farmers? An exploration of heterogeneous impact of coffee cooperative membership in Southwest Ethiopia

Do farmers benefit from participating in specialty markets and cooperatives? The case of coffee marketing in Costa Rica

Do coffee roasters benefit from high prices of green coffee?

The German coffee industry has repeatedly made the puzzling statement that it would prefer higher prices of green coffee, its main input. Likewise, it supported the maintenance of the coffee tax. In this paper, an oligopoly model with differentiated products is used to illustrate the possibility of profit-raising cost-increases. The relationship between prices and costs of roasted coffee in Ger...

Economic Significance of Coffee (Coffee Arabica) Production in Parbat District of Nepal

This study considered the production economics of coffee in Pakuwa village development committee of Parbat district, Nepal. Household Survey was done in June 2014. Data collection was done using semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire administered on 40 coffee producers selected randomly. Gross margin analysis, profitability index and the benefit-cost ratio was used to analyze the production e...

Imperfections in Membership Based Organizations for the Poor: An Explanation for the Dismal Performance of Kenya’s Coffee Cooperatives

Solving the "Coffee Paradox": Understanding Ethiopia's Coffee Cooperatives Through Elinor Ostrom's Theory of the Commons