Essays about: "Trade Coffee"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the words Trade Coffee.

1. 21. Coffee, a Fair Trade? : a study about Fairtrade certified Gayo coffee farmers in Aceh, Indonesia

   University essay from SLU/Horticulture (until 121231)

   Author : Anna-Carin Almqvist; [2011]
   Keywords : Coffee; Coffea Arabica; Fairtrade; certifications; Aceh; Indonesia; Gayo coffee;

   Abstract : Today there are different types of certifications of different products. Fairtrade is the most common certification in the world. Fairtrade is a worldwide non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization. Fairtrade certified producer organizations represent over one million farmers and workers in Latin America, Africa and Asia. READ MORE

3. 22. Gendered Political Ecology of Coffee and Maize Agro-Ecosystems in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Bruno Ricardo Portillo Seminario; [2011]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : 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

4. 23. Drinking coffee for a better world

   University essay from Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET)

   Author : Emma Renström; Martina Börjesson; [2010]
   Keywords : Fair trade; consumer behavior and co branding;

   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

5. 24. Price transmission system in Ethiopian coffee market

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Mengistu Seyoum ; [2010]
   Keywords : price transmission; asymmetry; market integration; coffee; Ethiopia;

   Abstract : 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

6. 25. Visualizing the Ethiopian Commodity Market

   University essay from Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap

   Author : Jakob Rogstadius; [2009]
   Keywords : information; visualization; financial; finance; media technology; data visualization; coffee; market surveillance; ethiopia; commodity; exchange; africa; developing; market data; market information; visual analytics;

   Abstract : The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), like many other data intensive organizations, is having difficulties making full use of the vast amounts of data that it collects. This MSc thesis identifies areas within the organization where concepts from the academic fields of information visualization and visual analytics can be applied to address this issue. READ MORE