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    Organic Coffee Production-And Sustainable • Agriculture (A Socio- Ecological Analysis) A Case Study In Limmuu Kossaa District
    (Addis Ababauniversity, 2006-07) Tihune, Asfaw; Ayele, Gezahegn (PhD)
    Coffee used 10 be Ihe main agricullural commodily of Ihe counlry for long period The Illsl Ihim' yellrs have experienced repeated fall in price 01 Ihe global markel. This has affeeled Ihe COllll lI )"'S foreign exchange earn ings ill general and smallholder producers in parriel/lur. Ahout ~5% of !he populalions who direc!ly or indireclly depend on coffee induslry lieI'd 10 search for allot her allernalille means of being competitive. As a value-added crop. (}/',{!,Clllic ('(~tl('(' is ('oplUrtng higher premium price on global and fa ir-trade morkelS. This ('ose sflldy is co"ducled (II Li/JllJlulI Kooss(/(J Disfricl . .Jimmaa Zone ofOomiyaa Natiollal Regional C()rerlllllen/ with Ihe ()/~i<'Cl il 'l.! (~f aSI.e.ss ing (lie socio-ecologicol impact of organic coffee production on the sustailillhility of al!ricultural development in the area. Three coffee producilll! sites were selected. Each site is sampled with characteristic attributes relevan! () organic coffee production, cooperative membership, non-organic coffee praduclion and non-cooperalive members/tip. The sludy employed a socio-ecological analysis of organic coffee produclion in conlr05I to nonorganic way of coffee production Socio-ecological analysis comprises ecological, economical, social and institutional components to be investigated The impacts of these components on environmental sustainability, optimal produclion and equity are measured. The slUdy disclosed that organic coffee production is ecologicolly sound and economically rewarding when cumpared to nOIl-orgonic way of coffee production. Social alld i"s/i/1IIiollal performonces of the 'ystelll of productioll are found to be as poor as in non-organic system of production. The results show that organic coffee produc/ion, as implemented in Baabboo, did not allain social justice alld equity. It ha ,mot yet allained a 'break-away ' from similar cOns/rainS of non-organic system of productiOti. The study cOllcludes that sustaillability of organic coffee produc/ion at Boahboo is confronted with po/ential dangers. It, thus, provides signals of policy implica/ions of the challenges and possible solutions