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La política de precios del café en Colombia

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  • Roberto Steiner
  • Natalia Salazar Ferro
  • Alejandro Becerra

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"Una política cafetera que tenga como objetivo tanto la estabilización de precios como la maximización del ingreso del productor es insostenible y conlleva a altos costos para el fisco. En Colombia, se ha observado una elevada transmisión del precio externo al interno en períodos de precios externos al alza, y baja transmisión cuando los precios externos se deprimen. El subsidio que actualmente se otorga en Colombia, en particular el Programa de Protección al Ingreso Cafetero, se asigna en función de la producción, excluye a los pequenos productores y no exige ninguna mejora en productividad o calidad. La inequidad en su distribución es dramática; en 2013 el 10% de los productores recibieron el 80% del subsidio. Proponemos que, si se decide destinar recursos públicos al subsidio del sector cafetero, lo ideal sería fomentar la oferta y la demanda de esquemas de cobertura a las fluctuaciones de la tasa de cambio y del precio externo. La experiencia de otros países sugiere que la práctica colombiana de subsidiar la producción agrícola es bastante inusual. En otras latitudes. Los recursos públicos destinados al agro suelen proveer servicios y no por subsidiar directamente la producción de un sub-sector específico."

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  • Roberto Steiner & Natalia Salazar Ferro & Alejandro Becerra, 2015. "La política de precios del café en Colombia," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, vol. 45(2), pages 101-136.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000438:014957
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    1. Rodríguez, Orlando & Vrachioli, Maria & Sauer, Johannes, 2022. "Payments for environmental services and coffee production in Colombia: Technical efficiency across the world heritage status borders," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    2. Ignacio Lozano-Espitia & Lina Ma. Ramírez-Villegas, 2016. "How Productive is Rural Infrastructure? Evidence on Some Agricultural Crops in Colombia," Borradores de Economia 948, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    3. María Angélica Arbeláez & Sebastian Higuera & Roberto Steiner & Sandra Zuluaga, 2019. "The political economy of protection of some “sensitive” agricultural products in Colombia," Informes de Investigación 17195, Fedesarrollo.

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    JEL classification:

    • Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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