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. …

regimes are performative, based on different forms of embedded agency. The theory is applied on a study of Brazilian coffee … business which manifests the increasing importance of specialty coffee. Innovations in the transactional regime have created … new forms of agency which triggered new ways to produce coffee and to activate the hidden potential of variety in consumer …

This work presents advances of the doctoral thesis 'Commercialization and consumption of coffee in Mexico' under the … of industrial goods, agri-food chains and coffee that were reviewed to locate indicators, similarities, differences and …, methodological and a view of empirical advances of the GVC applying to the coffee chain which is discussed under governance in its …

. Certification of forest coffee started in Ethiopia in 2002 with the aim to conserve the coffee forests and provide the peasants with … a better livelihood. This paper evaluates the forest coffee production and the related human encroachment in the forests … of the paper base on interviews conducted with forest coffee producers in nine certified and non-certified coffee …

A steep decline in coffee prices at the producer level led to considerable pressure for farmers in Costa Rica and … of conventional and specialty coffee farmers. Controlling for selectivity bias, we find that technical efficiency in the … to have a significant impact in the specialty coffee model. In the case of conventional coffee farmers, membership in …

three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in …