in the so-called specialty coffee sector. Similar to the approach for wine in France and Italy, more and more coffee …-producing countries try to establish appellations systems for coffee. Whereas some countries and regions such as Colombia or Jamaica have … already legally protected GIs for coffee, most coffee GIs are still informal meaning that no legal protection has been …

, sustainable management of the forest (e.g. by growing high-quality semi-forest coffee), and strict protection. We find that …

coffee business that has evolved into a bifurcated 'commoditized' and 'de-commoditized' regime in the past twenty years … of the transactional regime in coffee trade, with implications for the distribution of the gains from trade. …