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 understood how effectively these incentives are transmitted to producing countries. We study VSS in Ethiopia’s coffee sector, the country’s most important export commodity, using a unique census of transaction data at the export level and large-scale data at the production level. We find that transmission of the export quality premiums to coffee pro-ducers is limited, with only one-third of this premium being passed on. Moreover, as quality premiums are small and average production levels in these settings are low, these premiums wou...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
In this paper we investigate whether private sustainability standards in the coffee sector in Uganda...
Certification schemes have become widely adopted across the coffee industry and are thought to act a...
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are rapidly increasing in global value chains. While consum...
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are rapidly increasing in global value chains. While consum...
Certification of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) is rapidly increasing in global value chai...
Certification of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) is rapidly increasing in global value chai...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries ...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Private sustainability standards cover an increasingly large production area and...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
Private sustainability standards are spreading rapidly in the agri-food sector and are especially im...
Over the past two decades, proliferation of Private Sustainability Standards (PSS) in global food va...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
In this paper we investigate whether private sustainability standards in the coffee sector in Uganda...
Certification schemes have become widely adopted across the coffee industry and are thought to act a...
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are rapidly increasing in global value chains. While consum...
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are rapidly increasing in global value chains. While consum...
Certification of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) is rapidly increasing in global value chai...
Certification of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) is rapidly increasing in global value chai...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries ...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Private sustainability standards cover an increasingly large production area and...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
Private sustainability standards are spreading rapidly in the agri-food sector and are especially im...
Over the past two decades, proliferation of Private Sustainability Standards (PSS) in global food va...
Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries,...
In this paper we investigate whether private sustainability standards in the coffee sector in Uganda...
Certification schemes have become widely adopted across the coffee industry and are thought to act a...