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 …

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 …

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 …

subsistence, representatives of Dutch coffee traders hold the capitalistic view that the free world market price is fair. …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 …

social weakness. It is perceptibly higher than the price at the world market. A part of all consumers pay the higher price … illustrated considering the example of trade with coffee, because coffee stands for the major share of all fair traded products. …

It is a widespread belief that multinationals are exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping … consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for coffee beans. The purpose of this study is to test if this is case in … the Swedish market for roasted coffee. In the Swedish market there are a few very large roasting companies and many small …

The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the influence of two distinct programs over the coffee consumption in … income growing. The second refers to a program that aimed to increase the quality of toasted coffee, launched by Associação …

This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the international coffee … trade. Because coffee belongs to the cash crops we have focus on the production. We have analysed the structure of the trade … concerning the green (not roasted) coffee, roasted coffee and coffee extracts, essences or concentrates. The analyses of …

Shade-grown coffee provides a livelihood to many farmers, protects biodiversity, and creates environmental services …. Many shade-coffee farmers have abandoned production in recent years, however, in response to declines in international … coffee prices. This paper builds a farmer decision model under price uncertainty and uses simulation analysis of that model …