Important changes have happened in the last decade to Ethiopia’s coffee sector. There has been increasing adoption of improved production, harvest, and post-harvest practices, with positive impacts on coffee productivity and incomes. Presented at EDRI, this research represents the first survey results on a national scale that gathers the key facts on Ethiopia’s coffee sector […]
Synopsis: Who benefits from the rapidly increasing voluntary sustainability standards?
ESSP Research Note 35."Synopsis: Who benefits from the rapidly increasing voluntary sustainability standards? " by Minten, Bart, Dereje, Mekdim, Engeda, Ermias and Tamru, Seneshaw Summary of ESSP Working Paper 71. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are rapidly increasing in global value chains. While consumers, mostly in developed countries, are willing to pay significant premiums for such standards, it is not well […]
Structure and Performance of Ethiopia’s Coffee Export Sector
By Bart Minten, Tamru Seneshaw, Kuma Tadesse, and Nyarko Yaw In brief Ethiopia is Africa’s most important coffee producer, with coffee export earnings increasing four-fold over the period 2003 to 2013. Changes in policy have led to structural changes in the export sector, with simultaneous increases in international market prices. To expand the coffee export […]