Sustainability in Coffee Production · Creating Shared Value Chains in Colombia by Biswas-Tortajada, Andrea,Biswas, Asit K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acronyms, abbreviations and definitions

Weights and measures

List of figures and tables Foreword: shared value from coffee Preface Acknowledgments 1 Why Creating Shared Value? 2 The world’s beverage of choice

Redefining the coffee sector 12

3 The shared C in coffee and Colombia: complexity

Price volatility Ageing factors of production Falling productivity Climate change: making the already variable even more unpredictable Succession: where will the new farmers come from? Women Colombia’s coffee architecture Peace wears yellow The International Coffee Agreement, the quota system and the crisis that followed Half full cups The promises of a national policy for rural development

4 Nestlé in Colombia

Sharing value locally Human capital Quality archetypes The coffee roads Reducing footprints Stability anchors Agents of change Sustainability is a global effort

5 From farm to cup: the Nescafé Plan

Partnerships The record in Colombia

6 Quality, productivity and sustainability: the AAA Sustainable QualityTM Program

Commitments Moving towards 100 per cent sustainable coffee sourcing From farm to landfill? What is happening to the capsules Carbon off and in setting The sustainability continuum The record Picking friends Assessing sustainability

7 Lessons learned: future challenges and opportunities

Local partnerships that work Changing generational paradigms At the core of competitiveness: relevant technical assistance Capacity building Sharing the spotlight between farmers and consumers From activities to objectives and from transactions to interactions Puzzling implications of human capital creation

8 Further thoughts Postscript Epilogue Bibliography Index