The 'Latte Revolution'? Regulation, Markets and Consumption in the Global Coffee Chain

By S. Ponte. 2002

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks (2004, background): “…buyer driven analogy into the agro-food sector, suggesting that powerful buyers increasingly govern enterprise participation, production processes, and product specifications in international supply chains (Dolan & Humphrey, 2000; Fold, 2002; Gibbon, 2001a, 2001b; Ponte, 2002a; Talbot, 2002).”
Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks (2002, background): “9 The top five coffee distributors control 69 percent of the world market (van Dijk et al. 1998 cited in Ponte 2002, p. 1108).”
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward (2005, background): “…chain participants.23 As we know from a vast and growing literature, firms that successfully participate in global value chains may not deliver benefits to workers in the form of higher wages, greater job security or improved working conditions (Ponte 2002; Schurman 2001; Talbot 1997; Wood 2001).”
Strategies For Sustainable Land Management And Poverty Reduction In Uganda (2004, neutral): “16However, falling world coffee prices retard this local price increase (Ponte 2002).”
Bring In, Go Up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalisation and Delocalisation in China’s Apparel Production Networks (2014, background): “…central element in shaping new geographies of production, as economic actors (countries, firms, workers and regional economies) shed low-value activities, and the social and economic problems they can generate, in favour of higher-value activities (see Humphrey and Schmitz 2002; Ponte 2002).”
A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “Increasingly, however, the “latte revolution” (Ponte 2002) has pushed many growers toward specialty coffees defined by high-quality processing, fortunate origin location, certification, or some blend of these features.”
Common roasting defects in coffee: Aroma composition, sensory characterization and consumer perception (2019, background): “Quality grading in the coffee industry vs. sensory analysis2 With more than 2 billion cups consumed around the globe on an everyday3 basis, coffee is the the most important beverage commodity traded in world4 markets (Nair, 2010; Ponte, 2002).”
Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives (2007, background): “As Ponte (2002) demonstrates, coffee roaster/distributor control over the commodity chain continues to rise due to corporate concentration and the differentiation of coffee products, which further focuses profits at the point of sale.”
Empowering Coffee Traders? The Coffee Value Chain from Nicaraguan Fair Trade Farmers to Finnish Consumers (2010, background): “Fair Trade has been suggested as a remedy for volatile and declining coffee prices (Ponte, 2002, p. 1116).”
Roasting Conditions and Coffee Flavor: A Multi-Study Empirical Investigation (2020, background): “Coffee is one of the most important beverage commodities traded on the global market [1,2].”
The influence of shade trees on coffee quality in small holder coffee agroforestry systems in Southern Colombia (2009, background): “Small coffee producers struggle to secure satisfactory economic returns on a volatile world market, where climatic events and few large companies influence prices significantly (Ponte, 2002; Muradian and Pelupessy, 2005).”
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Coffee Sector:: The Dynamics of MNC Responses and Code Development (2005, background): “It was certainly not uncontroversial, however, which contributed to the end of this quota system in 1989 (Gilbert, 1996; Ponte, 2002).”