Information and Democracy in the Global Coffee Trade

Reichman, Daniel R.

doi:10.5040/9781350042155.ch-011

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“…An example of this is the Just Coffee Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin, which, as an alternative to standard fairtrade labels, tags each of its bags of roasted coffee with a lot number that consumers can use to look up signed purchase contracts, detailing prices paid to producer associations, on the cooperative's Internet site. 6 However, there is a limit to the usefulness of this type of information: no matter how well-educated about coffee a consumer may be, it is difficult for individuals to put detailed information about prices or production circumstances in diverse coffee communities into a meaningful context (Reichman 2014). GoodGuide uses a similar approach in that it relies on barcode scanning and product searches; however, it aims to provide an easily understood rating system consumers can use to assess just how ''good'' their foods are.…”

Section: Traceability From Crop To Cupmentioning

confidence: 99%

The GoodGuide to “Good” Coffee

Lyon

2014

Gastronomica

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Section: Traceability From Crop To Cupmentioning

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The GoodGuide to “Good” Coffee

Lyon

2014

Gastronomica

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“…Relevance for Food Democracy Reichman's (2014) definition of food activism also points at a transformative goal, "changing the world by changing how food is produced, distributed, and consumed." However, this carries little information about the kind of transformation proposed.…”

Section: Critiques Of Market-based Politics and Theirmentioning

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Food Activism and Citizens’ Democratic Engagements: What Can We Learn from Market-Based Political Participation?

Lorenzini

2019

PaG

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Food democracy calls for a democratization of the production, distribution, and consumption of food. Researchers and lay citizens are showing a growing interest for initiatives associated with food democracy, yet the specific democratic ideals and involvements that make up food democracy have gained limited attention. Many forms of participation associated with food democracy are market-based, such as buying organic food or joining community-supported agricultural projects. Research shows that market-based logics influence multiple spheres of life and threaten democratic ideals. However, scholars working on political participation have not yet analyzed the influence of market-based logics across forms of participation. This article analyses the action repertoire of food democracy to assess the influence of market-based logics on different forms of food activism. It builds on four critiques of market-based politics to question the relationship between different forms of participation and the market. It addresses three research questions: Which forms of political participation do citizens use to democratize the food regime? Which conceptions of democracy relate to these different forms of food activism? Which critiques of market-based politics apply to different forms of food activism? The article highlights the widespread risk of unequal participation, crowding out, commodification, and state retreat across forms of participation used to democratize food regimes. This study provides insights into the types of democratic renewal being experimented with in the framework of food democracy as well as their limits.

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“…Discussions of traceability in coffee have generally focused either on commodity coffee or on Fair Trade coffee (see, e.g., Levy, Reinecke, and Manning ; MacDonald ; Neilson ; Raynolds ; Reichman ). Among those writing about the Fair Trade market, traceability has been seen as an impersonal process, which is problematic when applied to a system in which buyers and producers (or at least the leaders of producer co‐operatives) know one another and sales are embedded within a network of personal relationships built over time.…”

Section: Traceability Landscape and Specialty Coffeementioning

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Coffee Landscapes: Specialty Coffee, Terroir, and Traceability in Costa Rica

Smith¹

2018

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Coffee with the right traits can command impressive prices in the specialty coffee market. While much of the attention to terroir—the taste of place—in coffee has focused on region, the details of place matter too. For farmers, paying attention to the details of coffee landscapes is important to create the distinctive flavors prized in these markets. This article explores how farmers in the Tarrazú coffee region of Costa Rica use systems of traceability based on details of the landscape and the coffee that grows in it to create coffee that “tastes of something.” Instead of seeing traceability and terroir as different kinds of production with different logic, these farmers see traceability as a key piece of terroir‐based high‐value production.

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Information and Democracy in the Global Coffee Trade

Cited by 11 publications

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The GoodGuide to “Good” Coffee

The GoodGuide to “Good” Coffee

Food Activism and Citizens’ Democratic Engagements: What Can We Learn from Market-Based Political Participation?

Coffee Landscapes: Specialty Coffee, Terroir, and Traceability in Costa Rica

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