Document Type

Report/Policy Paper

Publication Date

10-2019

Abstract

Coffee, the world’s favorite beverage, provides livelihoods for at least 60 million people across dozens of countries. Yet this beloved drink is experiencing a sustainability crisis. A sustained decline in world coffee prices has squeezed coffee producers, and thrown a tremendous number of producers below the global extreme poverty line. This report presents our research into sustainability within the coffee sector, including the results of our analytical and empirical modeling, and provides several recommendations.

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Agriculture Law | Environmental Law | Food and Drug Law | International Law | Law | Law and Economics | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Transnational Law

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