Coffee, cooperatives, and choba-choba: the role of non-market labor networks in building equitable supply chains

Agrarian marketing cooperatives are potentially important tools for rural development. However, many cooperatives experience significant outside sales to private intermediaries, even when offering price premiums through fair trade or organic certification programs. Outside sales weaken cooperatives...

• Main Author: Enelow, Noah H (author)
• Format: article
• Language: eng
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: América Latina; Perú; café; comercio justo; cooperativas; desarrollo económico rural; mano de obra agrícola.; Latin America; Peru; fair trade; coffee; cooperatives; farm labor; rural development.
• Online Access: https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/eutopia/article/view/1658