Coffee: the international commodity agreements
The authors of the study on the international coffee agreements and working at the Uganda Coffee Marketing Board and the University of Bath, England, respectively, open with a brief description of the history, botany, production, processing, manufacturing and marketing of coffee. Subsequently they discuss the factors which determine the supply and demand for coffee, taking into account the sometimes greatly differing conditions in the producing as well as in the consuming countries. The reasons for the instability in commodity prices are explained, as well as the advantages of greater price stability and the methods by which this greater stability might be achieved. The explanation of the background of the coffee agreements leads to the description and evaluation of the origin and operations of the International Coffee Agreements of 1962, 1968, 1976 and 1983. Recommendations are made which stress the importance of production diversification on countries which heavily rely on coffee, quality improvement as a marketing device, and retaining as much as possible of the added vakue in the producing countries
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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Gower, Aldershot (RU)
1985
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| Subjects: | CAFE, ACUERDOS INTERNACIONALES, MERCADEO, BALANZA COMERCIAL, POLITICA DE PRECIOS, |
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