. Next, we analyze countrylevel, historical contexts where export crops, such as coffee and cotton, have been implicated in …

Coffee is the leading agricultural sector in terms of both the number and frequent use of social and environmental … 1990s to approximately 4% of global green coffee exports in 2006 making it a multi-billion dollar segment of the industry …. The US and Canada account for over one quarter of global coffee imports in value. Their consumers are increasingly …

The State of Sustainable Coffee provides the first comprehensive overview of the market conditions facing, organic … eclipsed the growth rate of conventional coffee for more than a decade. As a result of their strict environmental and social … the coffee sector that has arguably developed the most advanced experience with certified organic, fair trade, and eco …

for coffee. We argue that coffee is grown under conditions that might well subject growers to the market power of … intermediaries and customers downstream. As expected, the income of coffee growers (in aggregate) is reduced, though the effects are …

This paper considers the system of fair trade coffee. It first gives a short description of the coffee market and some … the demand side then come under scrutiny. To gauge its potential as a development tool, revenues to coffee producers are … supermarkets that have started to sell fair trade coffee are clean-washing their reputation in the fair trade business. …

coffee industry, major corporations are responding by discrediting fair trade and branding themselves as ethical. While …

uses a balanced sample of Fair Trade farmers and likewise nonFair Trade producers of organic and conventional coffee from …

I use a representative sample of coffee growing households in southern Mexico to estimate the price premium and gross … growing coffee. More broadly speaking, the finding raises questions about the persistence of substantial price premiums …

coffee in Sweden. Over the past decades, the general public interest in products bearing some environmental or social … representative sample of grocery stores all over Sweden is covered, as well as all major brands supplying roasted coffee. Hedonic … considerable premium of 38% paid for Fair Trade coffee, underlining high public awareness reflected in the retailers’ pricing …