Intro -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Coffee certification in East Africa - searching for impact -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Proliferation of coffee standards -- 1.3 Impact pathways -- 1.4 Insights from impact analyses -- 1.5 Critical issues for reaching impact -- 1.6. Implications and outlook -- References -- Chapter 2 - The impact of Utz certification on smallholder farmers in Uganda -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Coffee sector in Uganda -- 2.3 Findings from Ibanda district -- 2.4 Findings from Kamuli district -- 2.5 General conclusions and outlook -- References -- Chapter 3 - The effects of coffee certification in Kenya -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Kenyan coffee sector -- 3.3 Impact of certification -- 3.4 Institutional implications -- 3.5 Challenges at farm level -- 3.6 Challenges at cooperative level -- 3.7 Regional differences -- 3.8 Conclusions -- References -- Annex -- Chapter 4 - Impact of multiple certification on smallholder coffee farmers' livelihoods -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Coffee production and exchange in Ethiopia -- 4.3 Impact of multi-certification -- 4.4 Data and approach -- 4.5 Measuring the impact of double and triple certification on coffee farmers' livelihood -- 4.6 Results -- 4.7 Discussion and implications -- References -- Chapter 5 - Maintaining sustainable livelihoods: effects of Utz certification on market access -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Theoretical framework and hypotheses -- 5.3 Materials and methods -- 5.4 Results -- 5.5 Discussion -- 5.6 Outlook: new insights and remaining questions -- References -- Annex -- Chapter 6 - Blessing of the bean or curse of the cooperative? - willingness to invest and trust of -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theoretical framework -- 6.3 Research context -- 6.4 Operationalisation of main concepts.

6.5 Research methods -- 6.6 Results -- 6.7 Loyalty, trust and investments -- 6.8 Conclusions and outlook -- References -- Annex -- Chapter 7 - Gender equity within Utz certified coffee cooperatives in Eastern Province, Kenya -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Gender equity -- 7.3 Analytical framework -- 7.4 Materials and methods -- 7.5 Gender development at cooperative level -- 7.6 Gender relations at household level -- 7.7 Gender interactions between the cooperative field and the household field -- 7.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 - Back to the birthplace of the bean: women's bargaining position and trust in Ethiopian -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Conceptual framework -- 8.3 Ethiopian context -- 8.4 Research methods -- 8.5 Results -- 8.6 Discussion -- 8.7 Conclusions -- References -- Annex -- About the Authors.