The Ethiopian coffee <i>filiere</i>&amp; its institutions: <i>cui bono?</i>

Love, Roy

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The Ethiopian coffee filiere& its institutions: cui bono?

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Publication date (Print): June 2001

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From the middle of the last century coffee has been the major source of foreign exchange for the Ethiopian economy and its governments. The bulk of production comes from small‐scale peasant producers located in parts of the south, southwest and east of the country, from where it is channelled through a largely privately owned marketing system to auction in Addis Ababa or Dire Dawa. It is then purchased by exporters for further processing and onward shipment. This marketing structure has evolved in a highly regulated way, comprising a set of institutional relationships which are not the product of chance and which in a number of respects predate both the current government and the Derg. As such the coffee filiereoffers an interesting case study of the relative merits of an analysis built upon the principles of ‘new institutional economies’, where efficiency is the benchmark, and one which adopts a more historically based political economy approach in which power and control are the markers. The distinction is not always transparent.

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Publication date (Print): June 2001

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[1] Abebe Haile Gabriel. . Institutions, Resources & Development in Ethiopia. In: . Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on the Ethiopian Economy; . ‘Thriving Informal Land Markets and Patterns of Entitlement Redistribution among Peasant Households’. , Edited by: Mekonnen Alemu and Aredo Dejene. .

[2] Addis Hiwet. . 1975. . Ethiopia: From Autocracy to Revolution . , ROAPE Publications. .

[3] Ayana Daniel. . ‘Coffee and Food Crop Production for Self Sufficiency: the Case of W. Wollega, an Outline’. In: . Proceedings of the Third Annual Seminar of the Department of History; . Addis Ababa University. .

[4] Bardhan P. . 1989. . The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions . , Oxford : : Oxford University Press. .

[5] Bates Robert H. . 1995. . “‘Social Dilemmas and Rational Individuals: An Assessment of the New Institutionalism’. ”. In The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development . , Edited by: Harris J, Hunter J and Lewis C. . London : : Routledge. .

[6] _____. . 1997. . Open‐Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade . , New Jersey : : Princeton University Press. .

[7] Bernstein H. , ed. 1995. . The Agrarian Question . , London : : Frank Cass. .

[8] Chanie Paulos. . 1998. . “‘The Rise of Politicised Ethnicity among the Oromo in Ethiopia’. ”. In Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa . , Edited by: Salih Mohamed and Markakis John. . Uppsala : : Nordiska Africa Institute. .

[9] Commons J R. . 1959. . Institutional Economics: Its Place in Political Economy . , Vol. Volume 1. , Madison : : University of Wisconsin Press. .

[10] Dejene Aredo and Demeke Mulat. . ‘Ethiopian Agriculture: Problems of Transformation’. In: . Fourth Annual Conference on the Ethiopian Economy; . Addis Ababa .

[11] Donham D and James W. . 1986. . The Southern Rulers of Imperial Ethiopia .

[12] Eggertsson Thrainn. . 1990. . Economic Behaviour and Institutions . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[13] Guluma Gemeda. . ‘Some Notes on Food Crop and Coffee Cultivation in Jimma and Limmu awrajas, Kafa Administrative Region (1950s to 1970s)’. In: . Proceedings of the Third Annual Seminar of the Department of History; . Addis Ababa University. .

[14] Hodgson Geoffrey M, Samuels Warren J and Tool Marc R. . 1994. . The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics . , Vol. Volumes A‐H and L‐Z. , London : : Edward Elgar. .

[15] Holcomb Bonnie K and Ibssa Sisai. . 1990. . The Invention of Ethiopia: the making of a Dependent Colonial State in Northeast Africa . , New Jersey : : The Red Sea Press. .

[16] International Coffee Organisation. . 1998. . Country Profile: Ethiopia . London :

[17] Larebo Haile M. . 1994. . The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935–1941 . , Oxford : : Clarendon Press. .

[18] Mesfin Araya. . 1991. . ‘The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia’. . Imbylta . , Vol. 2((1))

[19] McCann James C. . 1995. . People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia 1800–1990 . , Madison : : University of Wisconsin Press. .

[20] North Douglass C. . 1990. . Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[21] Otsuka K, Chuma H and Hayami Y. . 1992. . ‘Land and Labor Contracts in Agrarian Economics: Theories and Facts’. . Journal of Economic Literature . , Vol. 30((4)) December 1992;

[22] Paige Jeffery M. . 1997. . Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America . , Boston : : Harvard University Press. .

[23] Pankhurst Richard. . 1968. . Economic History of Ethiopia 1800–1935, Haile Selassie I . , Addis Ababa University Press. .

[24] Raikes P, Jensen M F and Ponte S.. 2000. . ‘Global Commodity Chain Analysis and the French Filiere Approach’. . Economy & Society . , Vol. 29((3)) August;: 390––417. .

[25] Roseberry W, Gudmundson L and Kutchbach M S. , eds. 1995. . Coffee, Society and Power in Latin America . , Baltimore : : The Johns Hopkins University Press. .

[26] Rutherford Malcolm. . 1997. . Institutions in Economics: the Old and the New Institutionalism . , (Historical Perspectives in Modern Economics). Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[27] Shiferaw Bekele. , ed. 1995. . An Economic History of Ethiopia: Volume 1, The Imperial Era 1941–74 . , Dakar : : Codesria. .

[28] Stanfield James R. . 1999. . ‘The Scope, Method and Significance of Original Institutional Economics. . Journal of Economic Issues . , Vol. XXXIII((2)) June;

[29] Steinmo S, Thelen K and Longstreth F. , eds. 1992. . Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[30] Stiglitz Joseph E. . 1989. . “‘Rational Peasants, Efficient Institutions, and a Theory of Rural Organisation: Methodological Remarks for Development Economics’. ”. In The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions . , Edited by: Bardhan P. . Oxford : : Oxford University Press. .

[31] Tegegne Teka. . 1998. . “‘Amhara Ethnicity in the Making’. ”. In Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa . , Edited by: Salih Mohamed and Markakis John. . Uppsala : : Nordiska Africa Institutute. .

[32] Teketel Haile‐Mariam. . 1973. . ‘The Production, Marketing and Economic Impact of Coffee in Ethiopia’ . , Stanford University. .

[33] Tessema Chekun Awoke. . Land Tenure and Land Policy in Ethiopia after the Derg. In: . proceedings of 2nd Workshop of the Land Tenure Project; . Addis Ababa . . ‘Land tenure issues in high potential coffee growing areas: overview of South Western Ethiopia (Keffa, Illubabor, Wollega). , Edited by: Rahmato Dessalegn. . Institute of Development Research. .

[34] Tsegaye Tegenu. . 1996. . The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism . , Uppsala : : Nordiska Africa Institute. .

[35] Veblen Thorstein. . 1961. . The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays . , New York : : Russell & Russell. .

[36] Ward N and Almas R. . 1997. . ‘Explaining Change in the International Agro‐food System’. . Review of International Political Economy . , Vol. 4((4)): 611––29. .

[37] Williamson O E. . 1985. . The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting . , London : : Macmillan. .

[38] World Bank. . 1998. . Rural Development: From Vision to Action . Washington , DC :

[39] Yigremew Adal. . 1997. . ‘Rural land Holding Readjustment in West Gojjam, Amhara Region’. . Ethiopian Journal of Development Research . , Vol. 19((2)) October;

[40] _____. . ‘The Rural land Tenure System in Ethiopia since 1975: Some Observations about its Impact on Agricultural Production and Sustainable Land Use’. In: . paper prepared for the Conference of the 25th Anniversary of the Institute of Development Research; . Addis Ababa .