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Index
Cover
About this Book
About the Author
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tables, figures and boxes
Abbreviations
Dedication
Preface
1 Commodity trade, development and global value chains
Division of labour and coordination in commodity production and trade: historical background
Value chains for tropical commodities: from the plantation complex to the classical organization
Standardization and the organization of production
Commodities and development: the debate
The agricultural crisis
Structuralism
The counter-revolution in development economics
Unfair trade
Global value chains, commoditization and upgrading
The quality issue: material, symbolic and in-person service attributes
Approaches to quality
Material attributes, physical transformations and measurement
Symbolic quality: trademarks, geographical indications and sustainability labels
In-person service quality
Conclusion
2 What’s in a cup? Coffee from bean to brew
Coffee flows and transformations
Production and export geography
Systems of labour mobilization and organization of production
Markets, contracts and grades
Retail and consumption: Commodity form and the latte revolution
Conclusion
3 Who calls the shots? Regulation and governance
Producing countries as key actors (1906—89)
The Brazilian monopoly period (1906–37)
Fragmentation of the world market (1930–62)
The International Coffee Agreement regime (1962–89)
The post-ICA regime (1989-present)
Corporate strategies
Regulation in producing countries
Domestic regulation of coffee markets
East African coffees: an introduction
The organization of East African coffee value chains prior to liberalization
The effects of liberalization on value chain structure
The lessons of liberalization
Coffee blues: international prices in a historical perspective
Conclusion
4 Is this any good? Material and symbolic production of coffee quality
From material to symbolic and in-person service attributes: quality along coffee value chains
Quality in producing countries
General criteria
Coffee payment systems and quality control in East Africa
Quality in consuming countries
Mainstream markets
A case study: coffee quality in the Italian coffee market
Quality and the North American specialty coffee industry
Conclusion
5 For whose benefit? ‘Sustainable’ coffee initiatives
Consuming sustainability
Analysis of selected sustainable coffee certification systems
Organic
Fair trade
Shade-grown
Utz Kapeh
Impact of certification systems on sustainability
A critical evaluation
Private and public/private initiatives on sustainability
General features
Evaluation of private and public/private initiatives
Conclusion
6 Value chains or values changed?
Value distribution along coffee chains: empirical evidence
Solving the commodity problem: theoretical approaches
Changing quality conventions
Transparency and producer-consumer connectivity
Territoriality
Agents of change? The politics of consumption and the role of retailers
7 A way forward
Governance and the coffee paradox
The end of regulation as we know it
Business and donors to the rescue?
What role for transparency?
Policies and strategies: an alternative agenda
Improving sustainability certifications
Material and symbolic quality: the role of IGO systems and intellectual property rights
Making hedonism work for the South
Coffee, commodity trade and development
Reference
Index
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