Backstory: Lauren Falcao Bergquist on High-quality Coffee Farmers in Uganda

About this episode

Mikey speaks with Lauren Falcao Bergquist about her research on Ugandan coffee farmers and the challenges in studying agriculture in developing countries.

Mikey speaks with Lauren Falcao Bergquist, an assistant professor of economics and global affairs at Yale. Lauren talks about how and why she studies agriculture in developing countries, the challenges that entails, and how she and her co-authors overcome those challenges in her new paper on Ugandan coffee farmers and their supply chains.

People in this episode

Host: Mikey

Guest: Lauren Falcao Bergquist

Topics covered

• agriculture
• economics
• developing countries
• coffee supply chains
• research challenges

Keywords

• coffee farmers
• Uganda
• agriculture
• economics
• supply chains
• research papers
• developing countries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale

Places: Uganda, UC San Diego

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