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Rwanda coffee stakeholder priorities and opportunities to improve farmer investment

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  • Andrew Gerard
  • Jared Pauli

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Key Findings -Rwanda coffee stakeholders prioritized topchallenges in sector between 2015 and 2018. -They identified changes that took place 2015- 2018 and suggested steps needed to boost farmer investment -Stakeholders ranked improving knowledge of potato taste defect and increasing farmer incomes as some of the most important challenges -Challenges related to pesticide and fertilizer became less important as progress occurred in distribution and research -The top change stakeholders observed between 2015-2018 was improvement in farmer extension and service provision -To increase farmer investment, stakeholders suggested (1) increasing coffee cherry prices; (2) building capacity for farmers/ value chain actors; (3) improving access to inputs/ equipment

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  • Andrew Gerard & Jared Pauli, 2020. "Rwanda coffee stakeholder priorities and opportunities to improve farmer investment," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs 303678, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:303678
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303678
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