Apart from the difficulty to attract new members, leakage of sales outside the cooperative is a
major challenge for the coffee cooperatives in Rwanda. Local (independent) traders still …

This study investigates what factors relate to the coffee farmer's cooperative affiliation
decision and whether this decision impacts the farmer's cash holdings. First, we propose a …

How does competition affect market outcomes when formal contracts are not enforceable
and parties resort to relational contracts? Difficulties with measuring relational contracts and …

This study investigates transactions in the local coffee markets in Ethiopia. While the
Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, which was established in 2008, introduced regulatory …

This article investigates member deliveries in agricultural marketing cooperatives. Since
cooperatives depend on members' contributions to achieve efficiency in processing and …

Smallholder farmers' participation in agricultural cooperatives is often promoted as a
promising strategy for overcoming market imperfections and to increase farmers' productivity …

This study uses data from 1,024 coffee producing households to address two critical
questions regarding the role of cooperatives in Rwanda's coffee sector: Does cooperative …

The revenue share of producers has dropped dramatically being and the development
perspectives of peasant coffee producers. We will examine the short-term impact of the …

In 2001, 106 million 60 kilo bags of coffee were consumed in the world, which corresponds
to approximately 636 billion cups of coffee. The majority of these were consumed in the …

Smallholder farmers in developing countries are often encouraged to get organized into
cooperatives mainly to overcome production and marketing constraints that usually hinder …