An economic evaluation of SPREAD on Rwanda’s rural population

Charles Moss, Alexandre Lyambabaje and James F. Oehmke

Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 36, 3634-3644

Abstract: Sustainable Partnerships to Enhance Rural Enterprises and Agricultural Development (SPREAD) was a programme to enhance the value chain for commodities in Rwanda including coffee. The implicit concept was that improving the value chain would increase the incomes for smallholders and, hence, reduce the poverty rate. The results indicate that Rwanda coffee prices increased relative to an index price for traded coffee with the implementation of SPREAD. In addition, the results indicate that participation in the coffee market at this time was associated with higher household income and lower rates of poverty.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1265076

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