Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain

By Jeffrey Leiter. 2005

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Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives (2007, background): “Prior to 1989, the International Coffee Organization (ICO), a consortium of major coffee producer and consumer country representatives, regulated the global coffee market fairly successfully using a quota system to control supplies and sustain prices (Talbot, 2004).”
‘Proactive fast-tracking’ diffusion of supermarkets in developing countries: implications for market institutions and trade (2007, background): “Post ‘take-off’ models of the diffusion of supermarkets, such as Wrigley (2000) and Reardon et al.”
A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “…coffee sold by the cup, exporters and growers have recently captured 15–20% of the total retail value, a situation that was similar to those in the 1970s and early 1980s when the international coffee agreement sought to control supply to maintain more stable prices to producers (Talbot 2004).”
The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network (2019, background): “…analysis of primary and secondary sources, existing publications on the coffee GVC and its organization (Talbot, 1997; Fitter and Kaplinsky, 2001; Talbot, 2004; Bitzer et al., 2008; Bamber et al., 2014), interviews and fieldwork carried out by one of the authors in the early 2000s (references…”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Resource Consumption/Environmental Degradation Paradox (2009, background): “Today, coffee is one of the most highly valued and heavily traded primary sector commodities in the world (e.g. Gillison et al., 2004; Talbot, 2004).”
Political Contestation in Global Production Networks (2008, background): “The American National Coffee Association, representing the large national coffee companies, shared these concerns and was willing to pay modestly higher prices for more secure and stable supply (Talbot, 2004: 58-60).”
Impacts of Fair Trade certification on coffee farmers, cooperatives, and laborers in Nicaragua (2010, background): “Several studies of global value chains have highlighted the shifting nature of corporate control in the global economy of coffee and other agricultural commodities (Barrientos and Smith 2007; Gereffi et al. 2005; Talbot 2004).”