Introduction Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Latin American Coffee Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3128673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Topik (University of California, Irvine), John M Talbot (0000-0001-7021-1995, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus), Mario Samper Kutschbach (0000-0001-6594-9434), Mario Samper (Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5-20 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x09356955 |
| OpenAlex | W2045407968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Since 1989 world coffee economies have been seriously affected by the spread of free-market ideologies, the growth of enormous multinational pro cessing and trading corporations, and U.S. anti-state pressures in the wake of the end of the cold war. Latin America has been hard-hit by changes in the global coffee economy because it still produces 61 percent of the world's coffee (ICO, 2009) but there has been a compensating double movement in response to the domination of huge multinational corporations. On the one hand, Latin American economies have diversified out of coffee, leaving it with a much smaller share of national exports and gross domestic product (GDP). At the same time, various alternative trade nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), some governments, and private firms have advanced Fair Trade, organic, and specialty coffee initiatives. These innovations try to address coffee's environmental and social costs and at the same time rescue farmers from economic ruin. They seek sustainable development. The responses have been as varied as are the societ ies and histories of the countries involved: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Peru. Even within the same country, numerous strategies have been attempted. Ever since the last quarter of the eighteenth century, when Saint Domingue (today's Haiti) became the world's largest coffee producer, Latin America has dominated and indeed helped create the world coffee economy. Brazilian and Spanish American growers were supplying more than 90 percent of the world's coffee by the beginning of the twentieth century.1 They used slaves (until 1888)
Development economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · International trade · Latin Americans · Market economy · Multinational corporation · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |