Fair trade coffee is a cup half full, according to Raluca Dragusanu, Daniele Giovannucci, and Nathan Nunn in “The …

An economic analysis of the the international coffee trade. The paper compares two regulatory regimes, the … International Coffee Organization and the Fairtrade Labelling organization. The ICO is an intergovernmental group that has … historically regulated the international coffee trade between exporters and importers of coffee. The FLO is an NGO that uses its …

coffee commodity chain under U.S. hegemony, 1945-1972 -- Struggles over regulation of the chain, 1973-1989 -- Globalization … and coffee crises, 1990-? -- The struggle for control of the instant coffee commodity chain -- Outcomes of the struggles …: where does your coffee dollar go? -- Solutions? Specialty, organic, and fair trade coffees …