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1 Fred Bagamba is a lecturer in the Department of Agribusiness and Resource Economics, School of Agricultural Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda. He has worked before as a research assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture on a Rockefellerfunded Banana Cropping Systems Research Project. He graduated with MSc degree in January 1995, after which he joined the Coffee Research Programme of National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO). He implemented a number of research projects with funding from Rockefeller Foundation, DFID and IDRC. He obtained his PhD at Wageningen University, the Netherlands with a study on Market Access, Agricultural Productivity and Allocative Efficiency in the Banana Sector of Uganda. His research interests concern labour use and resource allocation in agricultural production systems. Willem Elbers is lecturer and coordinator of the Advanced Master in Development (AMID) at the Centre for International Development Issues (CIDIN) at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published about North-South partnerships, development NGOs and managerialism. In 2012, he defended his PhDdissertation entitled The Partnership Paradox: Principles and Practices in North- South NGO Relations which was based on fieldwork in India, Ghana and Nicaragua. Eveline Dijkdrenth is teacher and researcher at the school of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences Saxion, Enschede, the Netherlands. She holds a master degree in Anthropology from the Radboud University Nijmegen and a master degree in Teaching Social Sciences from the University of Twente. Annemarie Groot Kormelinck holds a Bsc and Msc in international development studies. Her Msc thesis has focused on the relationship between gender bargaining positions and institutional trust in agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia. Annemarie currently works as advisor rural economic development for the Centre for Development Innovation, and as researcher for the Management studies group both part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageneningen, the Netherlands. Her main interest lies in strategies for linking farmers to markets, contract farming, famers organisations, inclusive agri-business, and commodity value chains. Coffee certification in East Africa 259

2 Paul Hoebink is extraordinary professor in development cooperation and director of the Center for International Development Issues (CIDIN) of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has a long experience with research in the field of development and has done consulting for a number of private development organisations in the Netherlands, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission. He has written several books and numerous articles and reports on issues like aid effectiveness, policy coherence for development, and Dutch and European development cooperation. Roldan Muradian holds a PhD in ecological economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), and has worked at Tilburg University and Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). Currently he is visiting professor at the Department of Economics of the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. His current research interests are in the fields of rural economic development, collective action and environmental governance. Mzeeh Hamisi Ngutu with Urbanus N. Mutwiwa and Samuel Njuguna are CEO and field staff of Noble Consultants Company Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya with extensive experience in the fields of agricultural extension, project management, agricultural credit to smallholders and processing and marketing of agricultural commodities in Kenya. Mr. Ngutu worked as an extension officer with the Ministry of Agriculture in Nyanza and Central Provinces, rising to the position of National Coordinator of the Smallholder Coffee Improvement Projects. He gained considerable experience in the management of Inter-ministerial Projects, involving the Ministries of Agriculture, Cooperative Development, Finance and the institutions of Cooperative Bank of Kenya, the World Bank and the Commonwealth Development. Hereafter, Mr. Ngutu joined the Coffee Board of Kenya first as a Field Services Manager and subsequently as deputy general manager ( ). Luuk van Kempen is an economist with a specialisation in development and international economics. He obtained his PhD in 2005 from Tilburg University, the Netherlands on consumer behaviour in developing countries and currently works as a researcher at the Centre for International Development Issues (CIDIN) at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is coordinating the research project on Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA), concerning several mixed-method impact evaluations of NGO interventions in Ghana, Peru and India. His current research is focussed on behavioural economics research on trust and aspirations and collective action in natural resource management. Christine Plaisier works as a researcher at the Centre for International Development Issues (CIDIN) at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has a master degree in Development Studies at the same University with a thematic focus on Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia. She also works at Agriterra, an agri-agency based in Arnhem, as a Monitoring & Evaluation officer focussed on strenghtening the M&E capacity of farmer organisations and cooperatives. 260 Coffee certification in East Africa

3 Ruerd Ruben holds a PhD in development economics from Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He lived and worked for 14 years in several Central American countries en was engaged in programs of land reform, cooperative development and smallholder agriculture. In 1992 he was appointed at Wageningen University to coordinate multidisciplinary research on food security and sustainable land use in sub-saharan Africa. Hereafter, he started an innovative program on the prospects for smallholder incorporation into tropical food value chains. In 2006 he obtained the chair in development studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, to conduct research on voluntary organisations and the development impact of fair trade value chains. Since 2010 he is the director of the independent Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. IOB conducts robust impact studies on development policies (education, health care, water and sanitation, energy, private sector, food security, etc.) and analyses policy effectiveness of Dutch foreign relations (diplomacy, human rights, European relations). Recently, he joined the Agricultural Economics Institute (LEI) at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, as coordinator of international research programs on food security, sustainable value chains and impact analysis. Bart van Rijsbergen graduated cum laude from the Research Master Social and Cultural Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen (2011). He worked at the Centre for International Development Issues (CIDIN) since his graduation. He is involved in several research projects regarding the impact of coffee and tea marketing channels in East Africa, the impact of reproductive health services on socio-economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa, the potential poverty impact of investments in marriage delays in Bangladesh, and Participatory Impact Assessment (of NGO interventions in Ghana, Peru and India. Bart is currently employed as research assistant with the Policy and Operations Evaluation department at the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mirjam Schoonhoven-Speijer is a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation chairgroup. Her research focuses on cooperation between farmers and other market actors in the oilseed sector in Uganda, such as traders and processors. It adresses questions of through which processes collective action between farmers and other actors comes about, is maintained, and is mediated through institutions. She is a Research Master graduate at the Radboud University Nijmegen in Social and Cultural Sciences. Before starting her PhD she has, among others, at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam as a junior advisor at the Sustainable Economic Development department. Coffee certification in East Africa 261

4 Amsaya Anteneh Woubie is a PhD student in Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He submitted his PhD thesis on the role of Coffee Cooperatives on the Livelihoods of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Ethiopia. Currently he is Economic Advisor to the Regional President of Amhara Region of Ethiopia. He has a large experience in External Development Cooperation where he worked for more than 10 years. He has also served as an instructor for two years in the University of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Furthermore he also worked in various organisations such as Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. 262 Coffee certification in East Africa

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