Quality or volume?: An economic evaluation of coffee development strategies for Uganda

Simon Bolwig; Liangzhi You

doi:10.1080/09614520701337285

Quality or volume? An economic evaluation of coffee development strategies for Uganda

Simon Bolwig^*, Liangzhi You

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The article identifies challenges and opportunities for the Ugandan robusta coffee industry in the context of the global coffee crisis. It presents a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of development strategies through which Uganda might promote its largest export commodity. It is suggested that Uganda would benefit from moderately increasing robusta production, while a further decline in output could undermine its current price premium in the market. There may also be important benefits associated with increasing the value of Ugandan robusta through improvements in quality.

Original language	English
Journal	Development in Practice
Volume	17
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	433-438
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0961-4524
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520701337285
Publication status	Published - Jun 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Globalisation
Labour and Livelihoods
Sub-Saharan Africa

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10.1080/09614520701337285

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