The Coffee Industry Of Colombia

From the New York Times the article: “Coffee’s Economics, Rewritten by Farmers”, illustrates how Kenneth Lander, a lawyer in Monroe, moved with his family to a coffee farm in San Rafael de Abangares, Costa Rica. Mr. Lander was looking for a more balanced life between work and his lifestyle. Mr. Lander started growing his own coffee from 12 acres of land that yielded 6,000 pounds of specialty-grade coffee beans a year. But in 2008, his financials started to dwindle, and he quickly struggled to support his family. Farmers in his similar financial situation usually turned to organizations like Fairtrade International who typically bailed them out, but for Mr. Lander, he sought out innovative ideas. He began to roast his own beans and sell them

Cuba is a country that has a cuisine filled with an abundance of flavors and influences of the origins of its citizens and people that came by the island over the centuries. Filled with fruit trees and the perfect land for raising animals and growing vegetables, Cuban cuisine is unique and vast. A staple in a Cuban’s diet is, of course, their coffee. Internationally known for the strength and flavor of Cuban coffee it has made its way into many people’s morning routines.

Coffee had become a big social factor in Costa Rican society. It gives social class new definition because of how much a person produces it. The higher production equals higher class status.

The coffee industry has proven there is a never-ending shift of global power through the global economy. Thus, through the history of coffee, it is apparent that factors involving the globalization process such as absolute advantage and comparative advantage have had an impact

Colombia is well known for its resources and one of them is coffee. In fact, Colombia coffee is regarded as one of the best quality coffee around the world. Colombia has great growing conditions for coffee and they are currently second in global production. The exact origin of the coffee is unknown but many think that it arrived with Jesuit priests around the 17th century. The first shipment of Colombian coffee was to the United States and it was around 1835 carrying 2500 pounds. However, coffee production faces problems due to soil and water contamination due to pesticide uses.

The documentary Black Gold, is about the world coffee market and an Ethiopian fair trade cooperative. Ethiopia being the birthplace of coffee is the largest producer of coffee in the world, producing some of the highest quality of coffee beans in the world, like Harar, Yuban and Sidamo types of coffee. The significant problems pointed out in this documentary show what is wrong in the global trading system. Mainly, while most of us continue have our lattes and specialty coffees, the amount paid to the Ethiopian coffee farmers is so low that a lot of them have been forced to chop down some of their coffee fields and rely on other crops to help them survive. The Ethiopian people are malnourished; they have no clean water, no healthcare, and no schools for their families. As quoted in the film, “They are living hand to mouth”.

Invalsa coffee inc. was founded in 2004 by the Valverde brother, Nelson and Jorge. They are both educated men starting their first commercial enterprise when they were only 16 and 10 years old. Their company makes the statement, “Our objective is to empower you to implement your direct-trade coffee supply chain strategy, giving you fully transparent access to the best green coffees available.” (Invalsa) The high percentage of coffee grown in Bolivia is grown using the small farmer family concept. This concept ensures the product is not mixed with other grown coffee beans maintaining the integrity for specifically grown green coffee beans. Traditional coffee growers and distributors will mix the different coffee beans making the product the lest common denominator for quality. Invalsa has a sourcing system for which in undeniable, “We have a unique system of buying coffee based on price per quality, as measured by the SCAA cupping

In the last few years, Peruvian coffee has been gaining more and more awareness worldwide, due to its flavor and high quality. As a result, it has received several awards. To illustrate, El Tunki, El Quechua, and El Sol & Café -types of Peruvian coffee- were awarded the second, fifth, and ninth place, respectively, in the Rainforest Alliance of Cupping Quality contest in 2013. Furthermore, El Tunki was recognized as “The Best Special Coffee of the World” by the Specialty Coffee Association of America in 2010 (Cafe Tunki, 2012). Due to these, it was commonly thought that these coffee grains were immensely exported; however, the reality was the opposite. The exportation rates were considerably lower than other countries with comparable crops, such as the Vietnamese or Colombians. This can be evidence as Peru exported 3.7 million coffee bags (60kg. each), while the other countries exported 19 and 7.5 million bags, respectively (USDA,2011).

There’s not clear information about how coffee arrived in Colombia. The historic archive says that the Jesuits brought the seeds around 1730. The tradition says that the seeds arrived threw the east of the country, and the harvest where registries in Giron, Santander and Muzo, Boyacá. In 1835 the first commercial production produced 2560 bags and they were exported from Cucuta’s custom. Then the coffee extended to the center and west of the country in the departments of Cundinamarca, Antioquia and the zone of old Caldas. The consolidation of coffee as a product for exportation was from the second half of XIX century. The great expansion of the world economy in that period made that the Colombian peasants find an attractive opportunities in the International market. Between the end of 70s of the XIX century and the start of the XX century the annual production of coffee passed from 60.000 bags to 600.000 bags, this was made in the main big farms of the departments of Santander and Cundinamarca, having at the end of XIX century, 80 percent of the total coffee national production. There was a decline in the international prices in the first years of the XX century; this made a big change in the Colombian coffee cultivation. It can be concluded that in the period between

Examining the historical, sociological and anthropological aspects of changing the structure of marketing and consumption of coffee, he probes a broader range of implications in the social change. He focuses on the new patterns of consumption as retailors shrink the trade from mass to niche marketing, and that how these new patterns, which are formed by the power structure, has affected the labor and so the consumers. With an emphasis on political economy

The benefits that the changes in the coffee culture bring are multiple and we see a coffee culture highly adapted to the new trend. This dissertation can be useful for foreign coffee shops to gain knowledge about the Swedish coffee market and its culture. New markets are opening through cultural changes, so marketers and others searching for new marketing opportunities on the Swedish coffee market should read this paper to get ideas, advices and inspiration.

As seen in the above graphical representation of major world production it’s true that Brazil is the leading producer of coffee globally and its production capacity is seen to increase recently. This is despite the fact that its land area under coffee has been diminishing owing to adverse climatic conditions.

Caffe Vergnano has long since been a name that is synonymous with the most amazing and full bodied coffees in the entire world. This company has rich heritage and has been led by the Vergnano family since 1882. The company originally started in the small Italian city of Chieri where Domenico Vergnano started his apothecary, which later became the successful company we know today. What originally started as a small shop soon grew to be 3 large warehouses and eventually in 1930, the family purchased a coffee-producing farm in Kenya. Once this purchase was made, there productivity increased ten fold and they expanded every year with amazing numbers. Looking toward the present the company now has a 13,5000 square meter factory with 18 automated

Costa Rica now provided raw material for Starbucks which accounted for about 15 percent of the total coffee beans Starbucks needed every year. Costa Rica as one of the raw material suppliers plays an important role in global value chain. Coffee has played a pivotal role in the development of Costa Rica. It has shaped social, cultural and political institutions and is still one of country’s major agricultural exports. (Anywhere, 2016) The global value chain in this coffee industry can be described that Starbucks, the centre in this coffee global value chain, purchasing raw materials (coffee beans) from coffee farms in Costa Rica, reprocessing and reproducing in retail shops, selling the finished products (various kinds of coffee) to customers in the world.

That is because Java house has its roasting facility and a team of highly seasoned roasters who select the highest quality of green Arabica coffee beans.8 The beans are hand roasted, packed in small batches before delivery to branches and retailers all around the country to ensure maximum quality and freshness.5 The brewed coffee is extraordinarily rich in acidity and flavour, thick in sensual aroma and hints of chocolate, which is a signature of quality coffee grown in Kenya. Javas core competency has been roasting and selling quality coffee enabling them delivering value to its customers. They have over the last 15 years acquired a pool of knowledge in this field and thereby created a competitive