Fjelstad Anth 115 T Tr 9 – 10:15 Commodity Chain : Coffee Fair Trade Throughout history‚ coffee growers have always been exploited. Since it was first introduced to countries such as Brazil and Vietnam‚ two largest producers of coffee‚ their people were forced into production in basically slave like conditions. Although slavery no longer exists‚ coffee producers still operated in harsh working conditions and received poor wages. After poor regulation in the 1990’s‚ prices plummeted to
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Fair Trade Coffee: Ethics‚ Religion‚ and Sustainable Production Global Marketing Management International Summer University 2010- WU‚ Wien Table of Contents Introduction 3 Problem Statement 3 The Fair Trade vision 3 Background: The Fair Trade Foundation 4 Background: Fair Trade Labeling Organization International 4 Fair Trade Mark 4 Fair Trade Pricing 5 The Fair Trade Premium 5 Question 1. Why should Starbucks‚ Kraft‚ and Nestle create ‘ethical supply chains’? 6 Question
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out of a coffee store with a cup of coffee in hand early in the morning is a familiar picture to many people. Nevertheless‚ how many ever wonder how many cups of coffee are sold per day and where is the coffee coming from? The truth might surprise people that coffee bean trading is an ethical trading problem. Coffee is the second most actively traded commodity in the world which has increased from $30 billion to $80 billion in retail sales since 1990. Approximately 25 million farmers in 50 developing
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should buy fair trade coffee‚ as pressure and accusations from NGO Global exchange to do so has presented Starbucks with this challenge. Failure to respond cooperatively to this demand may have negative outcomes- a national boycott‚ which can ultimately harm Starbucks’ corporate image. There are a few risks associated with the fair trade movement; however‚ the benefits of sourcing fair trade are greater in terms of long-term sustainability. I recommend that you impose the implementation of fair trade
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Mexican coffee farmers have had an enormous amount of trouble selling their coffee beans at a price that would generate sustainable profit. Nico Roozen and Frans van der Hoff had a vision to implement a fair trade business that would increase not only profits of the farmers but their overall lifestyles. Nico and Frans both face the problem of distribution because fairly traded coffee was distributed only through the so-called Third World Shops that didn’t generate enough demand to create a stable
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Fair Trade Coffee: Ethics‚ Religion‚ and Sustainable Production Global Marketing Management International Summer University 2010- WU‚ Wien Table of Contents Introduction 3 Problem Statement 3 The Fair Trade vision 3 Background: The Fair Trade Foundation 4 Background: Fair Trade Labeling Organization International 4 Fair Trade Mark 4 Fair Trade Pricing 5 The Fair Trade Premium 5 Question 1. Why should Starbucks‚ Kraft‚ and Nestle create ‘ethical supply chains’? 6 Question
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You’ve probably heard of "fair trade coffee‚" but may not be quite clear on what it actually is. It refers more to a practice than a type of coffee‚ and the emphasis is definitely on the word "fair." Before fair trade was introduced‚ the big â�� very‚ very big â�� business of coffee was all about the huge corporations‚ and maximizing their profits. This meant that most of the billions of dollars made from coffee growing went mostly into those corporations’ pockets‚ but was also funneled to the various
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case analysis of coffee market. The purpose of this paper is to study the supply and demand mechanism through the case analysis of Starbucks in coffee market. This paper has three main sections. The first two section states the problems in coffee market and its ramifications. The first main problem is that Starbucks being the price maker in the oligopolistic coffee retail market‚ Starbucks exerts its market power to set its coffee retail price much higher than other coffee sellers. The second
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Socioeconomic effects on farmers in a volatile Ethiopian coffee market and the promise of the Fair Trade movement Coffee and Ethiopia have shared a lengthy and highly tumultuous relationship. According to some‚ their history dates back to the fifteenth century‚ but it is widely acknowledged that extensive trade didn’t begin until the late eighteenth century (Aregay 1988‚ 19). As world coffee consumption skyrocketed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries‚ Ethiopia’s economy grew increasingly
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Can fair trade really be fair? Admittedly‚ fair trade has several shortcomings. Firstly‚ fair trade makes farmers become over-dependent social groups. In fact‚ farmers are not learning the real skills for them to survive‚ in contrast‚ they are becoming depend on fair trade organizations to gain limited income. However‚ under such circumstance‚ farmers are fragile to suffering from financial crisis because of their negative position. According to Jeffery(2012)‚ farmers are just receiving another form
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