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Grounds for Agreement
The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain
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2004
Summary
As the popularity of coffee and coffee shops has grown worldwide in recent years, so has another trend—globalization, which has greatly affected growers and distributors. This book analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain since World War II. It follows the typical consumer dollar spent on coffee in the developed world and shows how this dollar is divided up among the coffee growers, processors, states, and transnational corporations involved in the chain. By tracing how this division of the coffee dollar has changed over time, Grounds for Agreement demonstrates that the politically regulated world market that prevailed from the 1960s through the 1980s was more fair for coffee growers than is the current, globalized market controlled by the corporations. Talbot explains why fair trade and organic coffees, by themselves, are not adequate to ensure fairness for all coffee growers and he argues that a return to a politically regulated market is the best way to solve the current crisis among coffee growers and producers.
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Edition
1/2004
Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2629-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3712-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
239
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List of Tables No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. Theoretical and Methodological Grounds for the Analysis No access Pages 5 - 30
2. Material and Historical Grounds for the Analysis No access Pages 31 - 50
3. The Coffee Commodity Chain under u.s. Hegemony, 1945–1972 No access Pages 51 - 66
4. Struggles over Regulation of the Chain, 1973–1989 No access Pages 67 - 100
5. Globalization and Coffee Crises, 1990–? No access Pages 101 - 134
6. The Struggle for Control of the Instant Coffee Commodity Chain No access Pages 135 - 162
7. Outcomes of the Struggles: Where Does Your Coffee Dollar Go? No access Pages 163 - 196
8. Solutions? Specialty, Organic, and Fair-Trade Coffees No access Pages 197 - 212
Conclusion: Toward a Reregulated Market No access Pages 213 - 220
