Research Webinar
Analysing the Prevailing Incomes of Smallholder Farmers through Household Income and Expenditure Surveys: The Cases of Coffee and Cocoa
This research webinar discusses new evidence from a paper that develops a harmonized method to estimate net household income for smallholder farmers using household survey data. The discussion will examine what the findings reveal about Living Wage and Living-Income gaps, production costs, and how better income measurement can strengthen policy and monitoring.
This paper develops and tests a harmonized framework to estimate prevailing (cost-net) household income from Household Expenditure Surveys (HES). Net income (revenues minus operating costs) is welfare-relevant for commodity smallholders because it captures the margin available for basic needs after paying for inputs, hired labour and services. We apply the approach to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire and coffee in Ethiopia, benchmarking net income against poverty lines and the Living Wage level. We reconstruct monthly income and cost accounts from Côte d’Ivoire’s 2021–2022 EHCVM and Ethiopia’s 2021–2022 panel survey (Wave 5).
Speakers
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Rogério J. BarbosaProfessor, Institute of Social and Political Studies IESP - Public University of Rio de Janeiro; associated researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) -
Ian PratesDirector of the ARI-CEBRAP Living Wage Initiative in Brazil -
Katia Covarrubias (Discussant)Senior Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) -
Ana Podjanin (Discussant)Policy Analyst, Inclusive Labour Markets, Wages and Working Conditions Branch (INWORK), ILO
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