Solving the “Coffee Paradox”: Understanding Ethiopia's coffee cooperatives through Elinor Ostrom's theory of the commons

This dissertation evaluates the applicability of Elinor Ostrom's theory of the commons to other forms of collective action by mapping it on a case study of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia and its efforts to overcome the vast disparities that have long structured the glob...

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Main Author: Holmberg, Susan Ruth
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3465010