The Impact of Commodity Price Changes on Rural Households : The Case of Coffee in Uganda

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dc.creatorGodart, Olivier
dc.creatorBussolo, Maurizio
dc.creatorLay, Jann
dc.creatorThiele, Rainer
dc.date2012-06-26T19:00:42Z
dc.date2012-06-26T19:00:42Z
dc.date2006-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:11:19Z
dc.descriptionPolicies and external shocks affecting agriculture, the main source of income for rural households, can be expected to have a significant impact on poverty. The authors study the case of Uganda. Throughout the 1990s, more than 90 percent of its poor lived in rural areas and, during the same period, large international price fluctuations as well as an extensive domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys covering the 1990s, the authors confirm a strong correlation between changes in coffee prices (in a liberalized market) and poverty reduction. This is highlighted by comparing the performance of different households grouped according to their dependence on coffee farming. Regression analysis (based on pooled data from the three surveys) of consumption expenditure on coffee-related variables, other controls, and time-fixed effects corroborates that the mentioned correlation is not spurious. The authors also find that while both poor and rich farmers enter the coffee sector, the price boom benefits the poorer households relatively more, whereas the liberalization seems to create more opportunities for richer farmers. Finally, notwithstanding the importance of the coffee price boom, the agricultural policy framework and the thorough structural reforms in which the coffee market liberalization was embedded have certainly played a role in triggering overall agricultural growth. These factors appear to matter especially in the second half of the 1990s when prices went down but poverty reduction continued.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/12/7255566/impact-commodity-price-changes-rural-households-case-coffee-uganda
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9278
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-4088
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/415942
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper; No. 4088
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL INCOMES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL INPUTS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL POLICY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subjectALTERNATIVE CROPS
dc.subjectCAPITA CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectCAPITA INCOMES
dc.subjectCHANGES IN POVERTY
dc.subjectCLIMATIC ZONES
dc.subjectCOFFEE
dc.subjectCOFFEE CROP
dc.subjectCOFFEE FARMERS
dc.subjectCOFFEE GROWERS
dc.subjectCOFFEE MARKET
dc.subjectCOFFEE MARKETS
dc.subjectCOFFEE PRICE
dc.subjectCOFFEE PRICES
dc.subjectCOFFEE PRODUCERS
dc.subjectCOFFEE PRODUCTION
dc.subjectCOFFEE SECTOR
dc.subjectCOFFEE YIELDS
dc.subjectCOMMODITY
dc.subjectCOMMODITY PRICE
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION AGGREGATE
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
dc.subjectCOTTON
dc.subjectCOTTON PRODUCTION
dc.subjectCOUNTERFACTUAL
dc.subjectCROP
dc.subjectCROP AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectCROP INCOME
dc.subjectCROP PRICES
dc.subjectCROPS
dc.subjectCULTIVATION
dc.subjectDIVERSIFICATION
dc.subjectDOMESTIC MARKET
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectEXPENDITURE
dc.subjectEXPENDITURES
dc.subjectEXPORT CROPS
dc.subjectFARM
dc.subjectFARM EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectFARM HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectFARM INCOME
dc.subjectFARM LABOR
dc.subjectFARM SIZE
dc.subjectFARMER
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFARMING
dc.subjectFARMS
dc.subjectHARVESTING
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subjectIFPRI
dc.subjectIMPACT ON POVERTY
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINCOME GAP
dc.subjectINCOME GROWTH
dc.subjectINCOME SHARES
dc.subjectINFLATION
dc.subjectLAND SIZE
dc.subjectLANDHOLDINGS
dc.subjectLIVING STANDARDS
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC STABILITY
dc.subjectMARKET LIBERALIZATION
dc.subjectMARKET PRICE
dc.subjectMARKET PRICES
dc.subjectMARKET STRUCTURE
dc.subjectMARKETING
dc.subjectPER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectPLANTING
dc.subjectPOOR
dc.subjectPOOR BENEFIT
dc.subjectPOOR FARMERS
dc.subjectPOORER FARMERS
dc.subjectPOORER HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACT
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINES
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPRICE CHANGES
dc.subjectPRICE EFFECT
dc.subjectPRICE FLUCTUATIONS
dc.subjectPRICE INCREASE
dc.subjectPRICE INCREASES
dc.subjectPRICE LIBERALIZATION
dc.subjectPRODUCE
dc.subjectPRODUCER PRICES
dc.subjectPURCHASING
dc.subjectREDUCTION IN POVERTY
dc.subjectRURAL
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectRURAL GROWTH
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectRURAL PHENOMENON
dc.subjectRURAL POVERTY
dc.subjectSAVINGS
dc.subjectSCHOOLING
dc.subjectSMALL LANDHOLDINGS
dc.subjectSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
dc.subjectSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS
dc.subjectSTRUCTURAL REFORMS
dc.subjectSUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
dc.subjectWELFARE MEASURE
dc.subjectWORLD MARKET
dc.subjectWORLD MARKETS
dc.subjectYIELDS
dc.titleThe Impact of Commodity Price Changes on Rural Households : The Case of Coffee in Uganda

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