Coffee price risk in perspective - household vulnurability among rural coffee growing smallholders in rural Tanzania (English)

Despite the precipitous decline in coffee prices in early 2000, cash crop growing smallholders in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, Tanzania, identified health shocks, droughts as well as commodity price declines as their major risk factors. About one third of the rural population in Kilimanjaro suffered either from drought or health shocks in 2003, resulting in 18 percent welfare loss. Through reliance on savings and aid they reduced this loss to 8 percent...
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  • Christiaensen,Luc;
    Hoffman, Vivian;
    Sarris,Alexander H;

  • 2006/03/10

  • Working Paper

  • 41690

  • 1

  • 1

  • Tanzania,

  • Eastern and Southern Africa,

  • 2010/07/01

  • Coffee price risk in perspective - household vulnurability among rural coffee growing smallholders in rural Tanzania

  • international food policy research institute

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Christiaensen,Luc; Hoffman, Vivian; Sarris,Alexander H.

Coffee price risk in perspective - household vulnurability among rural coffee growing smallholders in rural Tanzania (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572881468782092505

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