Like many primary products, coffee has long been characterised as a commodity with falling terms of trade and volatile prices. Yet, in recent years, there has been growing product differentiation in final markets, with premium prices being earned and high and sustainable incomes being provided. So far, these product rents have been almost entirely appropriated by residents of high-income economies. However, to the extent that growers can learn to improve their product through the systematic application of knowledge throughout the value chain, and consumers are taught to recognise that product variety and quality are determined in the growing rather than the roasting stage of the chain, an alternative outcome is possible. This paper outlines...
Abstract — Globalization, either directly or indirectly (e.g. through structural adjustment reforms)...
Many of the world's poor still directly or indirectly depend upon agricultural commodities for their...
This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the intern...
The weakness of redistributional mechanisms, both globally and within developing economies, makes it...
For producers motivated by their new status as self-employed, landowning, capitalist coffee growers,...
Summaries This article applies value?chain analysis to an agricultural ‘commodity’, which is in the...
Based on a case study of the burgeoning high-end (“Third Wave”) coffee market in the United States, ...
ABSTRACT: For most countries in tropical and sub-tropical regions, coffee is the most valuable expor...
One of the indisputable consequences of globalization is the world-wide linking of market agents and...
Summary. — Coffee is a truly global commodity and a major foreign exchange earner in many developing...
For many small producers in developing countries coffee is a major income source. However, the coffe...
Two and a half billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world annually making coffee the second-mo...
Globalization, either directly or indirectly (e.g. through structural adjustment reforms), has calle...
As a beverage, coffee is certainly universally known. But can the same be said for coffee as a commo...
We investigate what role economic instruments can play in preserving biodiver-sity in developing cou...
Abstract — Globalization, either directly or indirectly (e.g. through structural adjustment reforms)...
Many of the world's poor still directly or indirectly depend upon agricultural commodities for their...
This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the intern...
The weakness of redistributional mechanisms, both globally and within developing economies, makes it...
For producers motivated by their new status as self-employed, landowning, capitalist coffee growers,...
Summaries This article applies value?chain analysis to an agricultural ‘commodity’, which is in the...
Based on a case study of the burgeoning high-end (“Third Wave”) coffee market in the United States, ...
ABSTRACT: For most countries in tropical and sub-tropical regions, coffee is the most valuable expor...
One of the indisputable consequences of globalization is the world-wide linking of market agents and...
Summary. — Coffee is a truly global commodity and a major foreign exchange earner in many developing...
For many small producers in developing countries coffee is a major income source. However, the coffe...
Two and a half billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world annually making coffee the second-mo...
Globalization, either directly or indirectly (e.g. through structural adjustment reforms), has calle...
As a beverage, coffee is certainly universally known. But can the same be said for coffee as a commo...
We investigate what role economic instruments can play in preserving biodiver-sity in developing cou...
Abstract — Globalization, either directly or indirectly (e.g. through structural adjustment reforms)...
Many of the world's poor still directly or indirectly depend upon agricultural commodities for their...
This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the intern...