Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open …-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse of the International Coffee Organization, an … international "government of coffee" that was formed in the 1960s. In so doing, he addresses key issues in international political …

major coffee exporting countries in the world, in terms of their infrastructures, the roles of external shocks, technology … identifies links and dynamics in the value chains that have been developed in the coffee industry in both countries to improve … Colombia and Vietnam produce different types of coffee, and that both have implemented diverse strategies in order to be more …

This paper justifies the need to introduce a tax on regular coffee drinkers in the UK to subsidise the fair trade …/organic coffee production. This policy will allow to take full account of the negative external effect of regular coffee production …

This paper researches perceptions of the concept of price fairness in the Dutch coffee market. We distinguish four … which standards are guiding the perceptions of price fairness of citizens and coffee trade organizations. We find there is a … divergence in views between citizens and key players in the coffee market. Whereas citizens support the concept of fairness …

illustrated considering the example of trade with coffee, because coffee stands for the major share of all fair traded products. …

compared to a generic placebo label. Demand for the higher-priced coffee remained steady when its price was raised by 8%, but … demand for the lower-priced coffee was elastic: a 9% price increase led to a 30% decline in sales. While consumers attach …

recently, in supermarkets and shopping centres. The fair trade product with the highest market share is coffee. This study aims … to ascertain the implicit price paid by Italian consumers for the fair trade content of coffee and how this implicit … is the province. Since scanner data are used, the analysis can allow for the coffee attributes described by the labels …

sustainability standards in the coffee industry. The underlying market dynamics that have contributed to these developments are … sustainability. This study examines the major developments in the market for certified coffee in the Netherlands. It finds that, in … the creation of a market for sustainable coffee, decisions that significantly influence market creation are made in the …