Executive Summary on Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production

Authors

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University, The Center for Sustainable DevelopmentFollow
Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable DevelopmentFollow
James Rising, London School of Economics and Political ScienceFollow
Perrine Toledano, Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable InvestmentFollow
Nicolas Maennling, Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable InvestmentFollow

Document Type

Memo/Briefing Note

Publication Date

1-2020

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 of US$1.90 per day. This briefing note 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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Recommended Citation

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, James Rising, Perrine Toledano & Nicolas Maennling, Executive Summary on Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production, (2020).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment_staffpubs/54