Supporting Smallholder Farmers: Are Coffee Sector Programs Actually Improving Incomes? | Green Coffee Summit 2022
Smallholder coffee farmers face unique challenges in improving their coffee production and productivity.
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Recognizing this, the coffee sector has rolled out a variety of interventions and programs over the past decade (or more) aimed at enhancing productivity, profitability, and eventually, the income of these smallholder farmers. But have these programs worked? This talk will explore findings from a comprehensive literature review being undertaken to assess the effects of different interventions, highlighting the conditions where these have been most successful in improving coffee farmer productivity and income and sharing practical considerations for the design, roll-out, and evaluation of programs aimed at supporting farmers’ upgrading in the coffee sector.
About the Presenters
Dr. Davide Del Prete
University of Naples Parthenope and FAO
Davide Del Prete is an associate professor of economics at the University of Naples Parthenope (IT) and a research affiliate with the FAO of the UN. Davide’s research interests lie between international trade, development economics, and econometrics. For his projects, Davide has collaborated with several international organizations, such as the UNCTAD, ITC, World Bank, FAO, and numerous governments. The most recent research activities use unique firm-to-firm trade datasets to investigate Global value chains at firm-level with a specific focus on the effects of the pandemic-related disruptions and the power dynamics.
Rocco Macchiavello
Associate Professor in Management, London School of Economics and Political Science
Rocco Macchiavello’s passion is to understand markets and firms in developing countries – so that better interventions can be designed to share the gains from trade with farmers and workers in those countries. Much of his research focuses on the coffee value chain and on industrial relations in emerging markets. Rocco holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where is currently an Associate Professor in Management. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor at Warwick University. Rocco acts as IGC Lead Academic (Myanmar), is a Research Fellow at BREAD, CEPR, IPA, J-PAL and ERC Grant recipient. Rocco has conducted extensive field work in several countries, including Bangladesh, Colombia, Kenya, India, Myanmar and Rwanda partnering up with government agencies, private firms and international organizations.
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