DETERMINANTS OF FARMER INVESTMENT IN COFFEE PRODUCTION: FINDING A PATH TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN RWANDA’S COFFEE SECTOR

Daniel C. Clay, Aniseh S. Bro, Ruth Ann Church, Alfred Bizoza and David Ortega

No 246953, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP)

Abstract: Coffee production has been at the core of farm family livelihoods in Rwanda for many generations and today it serves as source of cash income for over 355,000 households across the country. Since 2001, the coffee value chain has seen a transformation in quality (fully-washed coffee) and is now well-established in specialty coffee markets around the globe. With the construction of 245 washing stations, the processing segments of the sector have prospered. Dry mills and export companies, both domestic and international, have similarly emerged during this period. While the value-added from this transformation has benefited Rwanda, those at the base, the coffee producers, have shared the least in the new prosperity.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2016-10
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.246953

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