Colombia is the world's third-largest producer of coffee and by far the largest single producer of washed arabica … coffee. This introduction outlines the global situation in brief and sets the context with a synopsis of Colombia's coffee … history and its unique coffee culture. Chapters 2 and 3 assess the impact of the current coffee situation in both economic and …

strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously … markets as a reliable supplier of quality products. The liberalization took effect in June 1996. Coffee and cocoa exports …

Vietnam has experienced three sets of direct impacts as a result of the coffee crisis: Some regional economic shocks …, socio-economic impacts in the primary coffee-producing regions that have resulted in the partial dismantling of services … like health-care and education; and post-crisis changes in the business environment. This study of the Vietnamese coffee …

Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for … approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda …, the coffee industry is extremely important to both the rural population and the Ugandan economy. However, the sector …

Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for … more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at … the Haitian coffee sub-sector. Instead, it describes the risks affecting the existing supply chain in terms of their …

A reform in Burundi's coffee sector is currently under way. Even though the reform was launched by the government of … Burundi in 1992, it was only in 2008 that implementation fully started. The purpose of the reform is to restructure the coffee …), liberalization of government control among the production and export agencies, and reform of the state coffee institutions. To …