The Coffee Paradox

Download or read book The Coffee Paradox written by Benoit Daviron and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recasts the "development problem" for countries relying on commodity exports in entirely new ways by analyzing the so-called coffee paradox--the coexistence of a "coffee boom" in consuming countries and of a "coffee crisis" in producing countries. In consuming countries, coffee continues to grow in popularity. At the same time, international coffee prices have fallen dramatically and producers receive the lowest prices in decades. As long as coffee farmers and their organizations do not control at least parts of this production, they will remain on the losing end.