Carlos Oya's guest appearances

Carlos Oya

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

Ben Anderson

Daron Acemoglu

Nic Cheeseman

Adam Branch

Nathan Lane

Yuen Yuen Ang

Claudia Goldin

Branko Milanovic

Eddy Malesky

Jerome Roos

Kurt Weyland

Gautam Rao

Sunil Amrith

Anthony Pereira

Tim Bartley

OwlTail

I buy Fairtrade bananas, assuming farmers are getting a better deal. But a new systematic review finds that agricultural certification only results in a marginally higher price for producers,  does not improve household incomes, and negatively affects farm workers' wages.Why is this? And how should we respond?You can read the World Development paper here, by CarlosOya, Florian Schaefer, &amp; DafniSkalidouhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X18303012Ungated summary: http://www.3ieimpact.org/media/filer_public/2017/06/07/srs9-agricuture-certification-scehmes.pdf

I buy Fairtrade bananas, assuming farmers are getting a better deal. But a new systematic review finds that agricultural certification only results in a marginally higher price for producers, does not improve household incomes, and negatively affects farm workers' wages. Why is this? And how should we respond? You can read the World Development paper here, by CarlosOya, Florian Schaefer, &amp; DafniSkalidou <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X18303012" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X18303012</a> Ungated summary: <a href="http://www.3ieimpact.org/media/filer_public/2017/06/07/srs9-agricuture-certification-scehmes.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.3ieimpact.org/media/filer_public/2017/06/07/srs9-agricuture-certification-scehmes.pdf</a>

Does agricultural certification (like Fairtrade) reduce poverty? Dr Carlos Oya