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Title:The Ethiopian Coffee Filiere and Its Institution: Cui Bono
Author:Love, RoyISNI
Year:2001
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:28
Issue:88
Period:June
Pages:225-240
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:economic policy
marketing
coffee
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External links:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240108704527
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=46C6BDD70A9E342BA29D
Abstract:From the middle of the 20th century coffee has been the major source of foreign exchange for the Ethiopian economy and its governments. At a superficial level, the production and marketing of coffee in Ethiopia seem to follow a conventional structure. On closer examination, however, it becomes evident that this is not the only institutional structure that is possible and that it is fairly strictly regulated by the State. It also in essence remains the system that had evolved during the decades preceding the political upheaval of 1974 and which the intervening military regime found useful to retain. This article contends that the institutions which structure the production, marketing and distribution of coffee in Ethiopia owe as much to political motivations and objectives as they do to the imperatives of economic efficiency, and that this is no less true under the present polity than it has been ever since coffee started to become a major international cash crop more than 100 years ago. Bibliogr., sum.
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