scholarly journals Kopi, Cooperatives, and Compliance: A Case Study of Fair Trade in Aceh, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Heather Walker
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
World Market ◽  
Market System ◽  
Strong Growth ◽  
Fair Trade Coffee ◽  
Fair Trade Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Coffee Farmers

<p>A development initiative at its core, fair trade endeavors to provide better trading conditions for disadvantaged producers in the world market system, such as smallholder coffee farmers, who face a volatile market and prices that have yet to recover from a deep price crisis in the early 2000s. With the onset of labeling and certification, fair trade entered the mainstream by the late 1990s, and has continued to demonstrate strong growth in sales. Moreover, new producer organizations are becoming certified in an expanding number of countries, and fair trade coffee is expanding beyond its traditionally dominant productive center in Latin America.  To explore how fair trade is established, and interacts with, new producer contexts, a case study was performed with five fair trade certified coffee cooperatives in Aceh, Indonesia, all of whom have gained certification within the last 10 years, was performed. This thesis sought to understand the particularities behind how fair trade reached Aceh, what factors influenced its implementation, and how coffee producers experience their participation in the fair trade movement. Further, particular attention was paid to the practice and formation of the cooperatives’ structures and policies; fair trade requires that coffee farmers are organized into democratically owned and governed cooperatives, an institution relatively unpracticed in Indonesia.</p>

scholarly journals Kopi, Cooperatives, and Compliance: A Case Study of Fair Trade in Aceh, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Heather Walker
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
World Market ◽  
Market System ◽  
Strong Growth ◽  
Fair Trade Coffee ◽  
Fair Trade Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Coffee Farmers

<p>A development initiative at its core, fair trade endeavors to provide better trading conditions for disadvantaged producers in the world market system, such as smallholder coffee farmers, who face a volatile market and prices that have yet to recover from a deep price crisis in the early 2000s. With the onset of labeling and certification, fair trade entered the mainstream by the late 1990s, and has continued to demonstrate strong growth in sales. Moreover, new producer organizations are becoming certified in an expanding number of countries, and fair trade coffee is expanding beyond its traditionally dominant productive center in Latin America.  To explore how fair trade is established, and interacts with, new producer contexts, a case study was performed with five fair trade certified coffee cooperatives in Aceh, Indonesia, all of whom have gained certification within the last 10 years, was performed. This thesis sought to understand the particularities behind how fair trade reached Aceh, what factors influenced its implementation, and how coffee producers experience their participation in the fair trade movement. Further, particular attention was paid to the practice and formation of the cooperatives’ structures and policies; fair trade requires that coffee farmers are organized into democratically owned and governed cooperatives, an institution relatively unpracticed in Indonesia.</p>

China und Lateinamerika

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (142) ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Enrique Dussel Peters
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World Market ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges

China's socioeconomic accumulation in the last 30 years has been probably one of the most outstanding global developments and has resulted in massive new challenges for core and periphery countries. The article examines how China's rapid and massive integration to the world market has posed new challenges for countries such as Mexico - and most of Latin America - as a result of China's successful exportoriented industrialization. China's accumulation and global integration process does, however, not only question and challenges the export-possibilities in the periphery, but also the global inability to provide energy in the medium term.

How Economic Dependency Was Created Through the WTO: A Case Study of South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka Yi Fung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
World Market ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Dependency ◽  
The World

Adapting the framework of dependency theory, the article asks how the economic dependency of less developed countries (LDCs) on developed countries (DCs) is created through free trade. This article uses South Korea’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a case study to illustrate this economic dependency creation process. Based on second-hand data from existing studies, the European Union, and the WTO, this article finds: (i) due to limited farmland size and high production costs, South Korean agricultural products cannot win a seat in the world market; (ii) the local agricultural sector was destroyed in South Korea because small farmers cannot earn a living by farming; and (iii) since the local agricultural sector cannot support the food demand in South Korea, South Korea now has to import a large amount of food. This article concludes that free trade actually destroys the local agricultural industry and the food security of South Korea, and consequently makes South Korea have to rely heavily on DCs for food import.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN PRINSIP FAIR-TRADE DALAM UPAYA PENINGKATAN KESEJAHTERAAN PETANI KOPI DI JAWA BARAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-75
Author(s):  
Ryan Harris Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
The Republic

Indonesia is currently one of the largest coffee exporters country in the world. Coffee from Indonesia often scores highest in various international coffee auctions. Along with the development of the Indonesian coffee industry, it is expected to improve the lives of farmers as well. But in the end there were still many coffee farmers whose lives were less prosperous. There are problems experienced by farmers and countries that help provide protection. On this basis the Republic Indonesia Government made Law Number 19 of 2013 concerning Protection and Empowerment of Farmers who are expected to overcome various problems experienced by farmers. This study aims to find and discuss fair trade conditions in laws in Jawa Barat (Indonesia), especially for coffee farmers so that they can improve the welfare of farmers. The study also found findings and discussions about laws related to improving the welfare of coffee farmers in Indonesia. This research is expected to provide practical and practical uses, namely those that can be used in the development of agricultural law and provide criticism and suggestions for making laws on agriculture that specifically achieve the independence and welfare of coffee farmers. This research is also expected to inform a public about fair trade, both the owners of coffee outlets, coffee roaster and coffee farmers as the main producers.

scholarly journals Role of export industries in the economy of Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
W. P. Chavarry Galvez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
State Level ◽  
World Market ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
Export Industries

The article examines the role of export industries in the economy of Latin America at the present stage. The study identified the GDP growth rates of the countries of this region, the comparison of the total GDP of Latin America with the world, the economic potential of the region, the main developing sectors of the economies of Latin America, the methods of countries ‘ recovery from the economic crisis, the main points of growth and potentials. The analysis made it possible to identify problems and identify ways to solve them at the state level, to identify countries with the most dynamically developing economies and the reasons for increasing their competitiveness in the world market. 

scholarly journals Globalisierung, Transformation und Neoliberalismus in Lateinamerika:

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (123) ◽  
pp. 305-317
Author(s):  
Christof Parnreiter
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
World Market ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
The World ◽  
New Literature

With the debt crisis of 1982 fundamental transformations began in Latin America. State centered forms of development were abandoned in favour of liberal strategies, oriented to the world market. New literature discussing this transformation process and its outcomings is reviewed.

scholarly journals A Bumper Crop of Fair Trade Coffee Books

2010 ◽  
pp. 291-301
Author(s):  
John M. Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Fair Trade Coffee ◽  
The World ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coffee Market

The history of the world coffee market is a story of cycles of boom and bust. The most recent bust, one of the most severe in history, began in 1998 and started to ease in 2005. This period of severe crisis across the coffee producing countries in the developing world stimulated a growing interest in fair trade coffee as a means of helping the small farmers who were being devastated by historically low prices. As public interest and consumption grew, social scientists, as is their wont, set out to study the phenomenon. The result is the current bumper crop of books analyzing fair trade coffee.

Modernity From Below: The Amalgamated Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, Ltd. of Izmir, 1907-1922

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-429
Author(s):  
Elena Frangakis-Syrett
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
World Market ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
The World

Turkish carpet making and marketing, a rapidly expanding niche in the world market in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, offers an excellent case study for modernity in a major Ottoman provincial urban center such as Izmir and its hinterland in western Anatolia. Representative of the changes that the city’s economy was undergoing was the Amalgamated Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Limited (ocm), which included multiethnic and multiconfessional actors similar to the city’s business sector and general population, as well as dual nodes of administration in London and Izmir. This case study of ocm (and of its emulators) reveals the degree of modernity that Izmir’s business circles were capable of at the turn of the century, and their ability to put together a trust and strategize accordingly along similar lines as the trusts in Europe or the us.

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