The impact of coffee certification on small-scale producers' livelihoods: A case study from the Jimma Zone, Ethiopia

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 429-440

  Jena, Pradyot Ranjan ^a   Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene ^a   Stellmacher, Till ^a   Grote, Ulrike ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coffee certification; Cooperative; Ethiopia; Poverty reduction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CERTIFICATION; COFFEE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

ETHIOPIA; JIMMA;

EID: 84863543589     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00594.x     Document Type: Article

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