Conformity to EU organic standards raises African smallholders' incomesSAFE programme study published in World Development World Development (Volume 37 No. 6, pp. 1094-1104) this week published a paper by Simon Bolwig, Peter Gibbon and Sam Jones entitled ‘The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa’. The paper reports an econometric analysis of survey data collected in 2006 in a coffee contract farming scheme in Uganda. It shows that participation in the scheme results in a significant increase in farmer revenue, compared to a control group and controlling for a variety of other variables. The study was carried out as part of the ‘Standards and Agro-Food Exports from Africa’ (SAFE) research programme which is run jointly by DIIS and Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. |
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