Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods

Bray, Joshua G.P.; Neilson, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/21513732.2017.1316520

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“…11 For comprehensive meta-reviews, see Kuit and Waarts 2014;Bray and Neilson 2017;DeFries et al 2017. 12 The Global Coffee Platform emerged out of the dissolution of the 4C Association and its combination with the Dutch IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative's Sustainable Coffee Program, and is driven forward mainly by Nestlé and JDE; whereas the Sustainable Coffee Challenge is financed by Starbucks and implemented by the NGO Conservation International.…”

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Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector

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2018

Regulation & Governance

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The potential of transnational private governance initiatives to constitute effective alternatives to state‐led regulation of global value chains rests on their ability to scale up and become institutionalized in a given sector. This study examines whether such institutionalization has occurred in the coffee sector, the commodity with the most widespread adoption of certified products and over 30 years’ experience of private governance, and tests hypotheses on facilitating and inhibiting conditions. It finds that while norm generation around responsible supply chain management and the organizational institutionalization of standard‐setting bodies is well advanced, the practice of internalizing social and environmental externalities through the routinized production and purchase of higher priced certified goods continues to be questioned by industry actors. Indeed, conditions that favored normative and organizational institutionalization, such as high levels of industry concentration, product differentiation, and deliberative interaction, are shown to represent barriers to the practice‐oriented institutionalization of market‐driven regulatory governance.

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Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector

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2018

Regulation & Governance

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“…Rigorous and consistent assessment of the effect of certifications on the environment and on farmers' livelihood assets is scarce; however, certifications are more likely to generate more positive than negative impacts on ecological and economic sustainability (Bray andNeilson 2017, DeFries et al 2017). Economic benefits for farmers might be more closely associated with enhanced yields, increased resilience, reduced dependence on agrochemicals, and increased access to credit than with price premiums or overall house income.…”

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Conservation of Nearctic Neotropical migrants: the coffee connection revisited

González-Prieto¹

2018

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“…To evaluate organic farming's environmental performance, researchers face one major challenge and that is to build rigorous counterfactuals (Blackman & Rivera, 2011). Several recent studies review empirical research assessing the impact of certification on environmental issues, including one specifically on organic certification (Blackman & Rivera, 2011;Bray & Neilson, 2017;DeFries, Fanzo, Mondal, Remans, & Wood, 2017;Lambin et al, 2014;Tscharntke et al, 2015). Blackman and Naranjo (2012) evaluate the impact of organic certification among 2,603 coffee farmers in Costa Rica with PSM.…”

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Organic farming for local markets in Kenya: Contribution of conversion and certification to environmental benefits

Tankam

Djimeu

2019

Canadian J Agri Economics

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Organic farming is a way to address environmental issues. In Kenya, organic production for domestic markets based on local certification represents a solution to both economic and environmental issues. We propose to address this latter issue. Indeed, no quantitative studies have been dedicated to these systems’ impacts on the environment. However, their theoretical benefits can be weakened, first by their functioning based on internal control and indirect external control, and second by the risk of self‐selection since farmers using low levels of synthetic inputs have less effort to make in order to enter in conversion process. Thanks to unique farm‐level survey data along with the propensity score matching method, we assess the producer‐level effects of organic certification for fruits and vegetables on agro‐ecological practices. We show that conversion and certification are associated with organic farming techniques and positive perceptions of different statements about environmental values. However, we do not notice any additional effects of certification compared to conversion alone. Although economic issues are important, we focus on environmental issues that appear as important for smallholders. In a context with no public regulation, conversion‐only farmers and locally certified farmers could be a lever for a more sustainable agriculture.

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Reviewing the impacts of coffee certification programmes on smallholder livelihoods

Cited by 82 publications

References 58 publications

Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector

Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector

Conservation of Nearctic Neotropical migrants: the coffee connection revisited

Organic farming for local markets in Kenya: Contribution of conversion and certification to environmental benefits

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