Fairtrade cooperatives in Ethiopia and Uganda: uncensored

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThis paper is based on research funded by UKAID. All members of the research team are listed at http://ftepr.org. However, it is important to emphasise that the material cited in this paper on the pattern of sales to smallholder coffee and tea organisations was mainly collected by Reta Hailu and Sam Bbosa.Notes on contributorsChristopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, London. He has worked in sub-Saharan Africa for some 25 years. He works mainly on development economics and on violent conflict. He was Chair of the Centre of African Studies (London) and is Vice-Chair of the Royal African Society, as well as Chair of the Scientific Committee of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE).Deborah Johnston is a Reader in Development Economics at SOAS. She has worked on sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years, researching rural labour markets, poverty, welfare and land. She is co-editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change.Carlos Oya is Reader in the Political Economy of Development at SOAS. Carlos has done research and fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on and in Senegal, Mozambique, Mauritania, Ethiopia and Uganda. His main research interests are: agrarian political economy, political economy of development, development of capitalism, development policy, the political economy of liberalisation and agrarian reforms, poverty, rural labour markets, development aid, and research methodology.Professor Sender’s research on co-operatives began in 1972, when he lectured at the University of Dar es Salaam and did fieldwork in Ujamaa Villages for two years. Subsequent appointments have included: Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge; Visiting Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand; Advisor to Mandela’s residential Commissions on Labour and on Rural Credit.