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BL
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747785
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b567736
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Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte.
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| Title & Author
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The coffee paradox : : global markets, commodity trade, and the elusive promise of development\ Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte.
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| Publication Statement
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London ; New York : Zed Books in association with the CTA ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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1 ressource en ligne (xxiv, 295 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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1281215600
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: 1848130597
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: 9781281215604
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: 9781848130593
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| Contents
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Tables, figures and boxes; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Commodity trade, development and global value chains; 2. What's in a cup? Coffee from bean to brew; 3. Who calls the shots? Regulation and governance; 4. Is this any good? Material and symbolic production of coffee quality; 5. For whose benefit? 'Sustainable' coffee initiatives; 6. Value chains or values changed?; 7. A way forward; References; Index.
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This book recasts the so-called coffee paradox - the coexistence of a?coffee boom? in consuming countries and of a?coffee crisis? in producing countries. While coffee bar chains have expanded rapidly in consuming countries, international coffee prices have fallen dramatically and producers receive the lowest prices in decades. The paradox exists because what farmers sell and what consumers buy are increasingly?different? coffees. It is not material quality that contemporary coffee consumers pay for, it is mostly symbolic quality and in-person services. As long as coffee farmers and their or.
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Café
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Coffee industry.
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| LC Classification
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HD9199.A2B466 2005
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Benoît Daviron
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Stefano Ponte
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (Ede, Netherlands)
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