Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup

By Charis Gresser, S. Tickell. 2004

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Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia (2013, background): “The Vietnamese expansion was caused by several factors including World Bank development assistance programs that promoted co¤ee exports during the mid 1990s (Oxfam, 2002), normalization of trade relations with the US in 1995, and a government led export promotion strategy, including subsidies, which”
What Tanzania's coffee farmers can teach the world: a performance-based look at the fair trade–free trade debate (2005, background): “Also, supply has been growing at an average rate of 2% annually, compared with 1–1.5% growth in demand (Gresser and Tickell, 2002).”
In the Market But Not of It: Fair Trade Coffee and Forest Stewardship Council Certification as Market-Based Social Change (2005, background): “Despite coffee prices which are well-below production costs, the TNCs buying and roasting most of the world s coffee are making unprecedented profits (FLO, 2003; Oxfam, 2002, p. 21).”
Biodiversity, yield, and shade coffee certification (2005, background): “plantations and migrating to the north (International Coffee Organization, 2003a,b; Gresser and Tickell, 2002).”