Coffee Marketing in an Indonesian Highland Area

A Local Institution Under Changing External Conditions

Bibliographic Data

ID10834597
AuthorsWolfram Jäckel (University of Göttingen, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume86
Issue2
Pages150-161
Publication date1995-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-747X • E-ISSN: 1467-9663
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9663.1995.tb01354.x
OpenAlexW2064620196
LanguageEN
References cited15

The current export‐led development strategies of Third World nations rely largely on the capacity of agrarian world markets which, however, are characterized by unfavourable conditions. This situation enhances the pressure on the performance of local institutions related to product marketing. It is shown that coffee marketing within the traditional market system of an Indonesian highland area turns out to be an increasing disadvantage for the rural poor since it involves high transaction costs. New practices will have to be institutionalized in order to facilitate more transparency and to strengthen the peasants' capacity to compete with large plantations as well as with other production areas. Methodologically, the article attempts to demonstrate the value of an analysis which studies the dynamic interrelationships between structures and processes of different spatial dimensions

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Business · Database transaction · Disadvantage · Economics · Geography · Indonesian · Institution · Market economy · Market system · Order (exchange · Political science · Product (mathematics · Transaction cost · Transparency (behavior · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Marketing · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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