Essays about: "International trade of coffee"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words International trade of coffee.
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1. Taking the Bitterness Out of Coffee: A Case Study of Value Chain Transformation in Ugandan Coffee Companies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The international trade in coffee is widely acknowledged to perpetuate unequal structures between producing and consuming countries. While coffee is largely grown in and provides a large proportion of income for developing countries, most of the value-added activities are performed in developed countries. READ MORE
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2. Ethiopian Coffee and Fair Trade - An empirical study
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistikAbstract : Fair Trade labeled products have become increasingly popular for western consumers in recent years. Fair Trade Labeling Organization International (FLO) claims to contribute to development by increasing profits to farmers and empowering producer communities. READ MORE
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3. Gendered Political Ecology of Coffee and Maize Agro-Ecosystems in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This thesis is about how these small farmers in two socio-ecological systems in southern Ecuador accommodate their agro-ecologies and gender systems to national and international forces and networks, and how it relates to processes of ecological appropriation conflictive with their possibilities of wellbeing. Loja, in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes, maize growers embrace industrial production, with a stricter gendered division of labor, which is offered as a solution to low income by state agents, meat-complex agribusiness, and banks at the cost of environmental degradation. READ MORE
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4. Drinking coffee for a better world
University essay from Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET)Abstract : In the beginning of the twenty-first century it became clear what consequences companies’pursuit of economical growth had created on our environment and our social lives. Now theworld is standing in front of a challenge and that is to find a sustainable way to produce,consume and live in order to help our environment and social lives. READ MORE
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5. Price transmission system in Ethiopian coffee market
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Price is the most vital element in market interaction. If there is an international free tradeand the domestic market of one country is interconnected with the international market,and if there is a price shocks in one market, the impact will have the same in the othermarket. READ MORE
