Finding the Balance Between Agricultural and Trade Policy: Rwanda Coffee Policy in Flux

David Tardif-Douglin, Jean Leonard Ngirumwami, James D. Shaffer, Anastase Murekezi and Theobald Kampayana

No 54691, Food Security International Development Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: Coffee is the principal source of foreign exchange for Rwanda. Over the years the predominating coffee policy has been to remunerate coffee producing highly to ensure sufficient production and foreign exchange receipts. The current policy debate focuses on whether the government can remove or modify coffee laws in existence since 1978 in such a way as to reduce the burden of the State and return crop choice to farmers without bringing about a catastrophic collapse in foreign exchange inflows.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.54691

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