ECX Watch |

This page provides links to commentaries and news archives posted on this blog regarding the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX). In addition to outlining the posts in chronological order, the page also intends to track future developments with particular interest in ECX' positive or negative impacts on the country's coffee sector and the livelihood of the powerless coffee growing families that are living in abject poverty for no fault of theirs.

2013

Review of Agricultural Warehouse Receipting Initiatives in Ethiopia

11/3/2013

2012

ECX is not an agricultural commodity exchange in the true sense of the word	12/4/2012
Is ECX at it again?	11/28/2012
Former ECX employees form a Consultancy Services Co., win $200,000 WB contract	10/23/2012
Doing Business in Ethiopia 2012: Competition from State Owned Enterprises	10/20/2012
UNDP Report:  Sustainability of ECX uncertain; mandatory coffee trading an obstacle to contract farming	7/21/2012
ECXcannot meet demands of high value markets	7/21/2012
USDA Report: Ethiopia's low coffee export "a response to government policy"	7/15/2012
Ethiopia’s coffee export nose-divesas gov't control backfires UPDATED - included a graph showing past 22-years' trend	7/5/2012
Ethiopia exchange, government to sell food aid to fund electricity projects	6/21/2012
Ethiopia Commodity Exchange CEO Eleni to step down on Sept. 30	6/21/2012
PM Meles Zenawi calls up on the public to expose corruption UPDATED - included full text of ENA's news article	4/17/2012
How Ethiopia is stonewalling specialty buyers: a roaster's perspective	4/6/2012
Back to the crossroads of coffee and politics	4/1/2012
How ECX demolished "Direct Trade" in Ethiopia's Specialty coffee trade	3/31/2012
Response to ECX's statement on the alleged fraud and corruption	3/27/2012
Statement by ECX in response to the article “The case of alleged fraud and corruption at the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange”	3/23/2012
Is the government serious about fighting corruption? The case of alleged fraud and corruption at ECX	3/19/2012
WikiLeaks: Gov't tightens grip on Ethiopia's coffee market	1/14/2012

2011

Government to ban 3/4 of most active coffee exporters

10/30/2011

2010

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange brings challenges...	9/23/2010
Ethiopian Commodity Exchange to Assure Pure Monopoly...	9/1/2010
Ethiopia PM says will probe coffee export defaulting...	8/11/2010
Coffee traders complain over trade transaction at ...	6/5/2010
Traders blame ECX for alleged failings	6/5/2010
SCAA's Webinar on Ethiopia Commodity Exchange	2/1/2010

2009

Exchange Not Exacting Enough with Its Coffee for English...	12/5/2009
ECX announced its trading of Specialty coffee for ...	11/28/2009
Straightening out coffee facts for the record	11/4/2009
ECX needs to restructure strategy to handle specialty...	10/31/2009
Time to Stop the "Self-appointed Coffee Tsar in Se...	10/29/2009
Guna, Owned by Ethiopian Ruling Party, Eyes Coffee...	10/27/2009
SCAA Industry Brief: Ethiopian Commodity Exchange	10/26/2009
Ethiopian Exchange Says Traders Tampering With Coffee...	10/23/2009
ECX Specialty Coffee Event 2009	10/20/2009
Farmers get a sit on ECX Board of Directors	10/18/2009
Window dressing of Ethiopia's coffee exchange	10/12/2009
Ethiopian Coffee Exporters Association VP recounts...	10/6/2009
Government tightens control over coffee trade	9/27/2009
What's wrong with Ethiopia's exchange	9/21/2009
The Controversy In Ethiopia's New Coffee Market	9/8/2009
ECX's coffee trade adventure: illogical or off-track...	8/29/2009
ECX and its Effect on the Coffee Sector - Part III...	8/2/2009
ECX and its Effect on the Coffee Sector - Part II	7/23/2009
One Woman’s Mission to End Hunger in Her Famine-Pl...	7/21/2009
ECX and its Effect on the Coffee Sector - Part I	7/20/2009
Ethiopia Government Settles Coffee Loans	7/20/2009
Ethiopia: Coffee dealers up in arms confront PM Zenawi...	6/6/2009

Prelude

Coffee Brews Feud, Drowns Out Voices

4/8/2009