Quality as a driver of sustainable agricultural value chains: The case of the relationship coffee model

I evaluated socio-economic, environmental and technological outcomes of smallholders’ participation in a sustainable coffee value-chain model that promotes transparency and traceability.

I led all the stages of the project cycle including facilitation of cross-sectoral collaboration, budget administration, fieldwork logistics, training workshops, data collection, information processing, stakeholders dialogue, impact analysis and per-review paper submission.

The sample included 265-smallholder coffee growers from two rural regions of Colombia and two stages (2013-14 & 2015-16). Information encompassed a socio-economic survey, on-farm soil sample analysis and forest and birds biodiversity assessments.