The present study, based on almost a year's fieldwork, is the first comprehensive investigation of coffee marketing in Haiti. This commerce is shown to illustrate two levels of dependence relationships: one, that of international trade where agricultural products have always been, and continue to be, exchanged on an unequal basis and, two, at the level of the internal marketing system where the habitants (peasants) are tied to a monopoly, support the burden of taxation and experience strong social and political control. / The main marketing agents, the speculateurs (middlemen) and the exportateurs (exporters) are identified and described, marketing mechanisms analysed, and the peasant strategies of resistance evaluated. / Finally, the thesis illustrates how the articulation of marketing arrangements around coffee, the principal export staple of the country, furnishes an explanation of both the historic formation of Haiti and its present social and spatial organization.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 31, 2008). "Department of Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-85).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1971. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-116). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-233).

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The first International Coffee Agreement (ICA) came into force on September 1, 1963 and established a system for regulating coffee exports and imports primarily by employing quotas to limit coffee supply. The ICA has been in existence since that time and is now in its fourth edition. The continued operation of the Agreement for nearly twenty five years is an apparent contradiction of economic cartel theory. Two major areas related to the success of the ICA cartelization effort are the focus of this paper. First, the structure of the Agreement, especially the provisions for regulating exports and imports, is analyzed from the perspective of standard economic cartel theory. This analysis highlights several cartel mechanisms incorporated in the ICA. It concludes that the Agreement is soundly structured and allows for the successful cartelization of the coffee market by those countries which voluntarily participate in the ICA. However, this sound structure alone does not explain the success of the coffee cartel because it cannot prevent countries from withdrawing their support of the Agreement. The analysis then turns to the questions surrounding the continued endorsement of the ICA by both coffee producing and consuming countries. Political and economic motivations of the governments which support the Agreement and of the producers and consumers in these countries are discussed. Although some incomplete explanations for their support of the ICA are presented, several questions surrounding the economic reasoning of many parties to the Agreement, especially coffee consuming countries, remain unresolved. / M.A.

Submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirement of M.A. (Anthropology) at the University of the Witwatersrand March 2016 / The aim of this thesis is to understand the way in which the Indian Ocean is seen to be a key influencer within African trade, and most importantly African coffee trade. The Indian Ocean has long been viewed as a contributor within global trade, but it is through this ethnography that I specifically showcase the impact it has within the continent. This ethnography highlights key routes which are taken for coffee which is produced in East Africa, how it leaves a landlocked country and passes through borders to a port city on the Eastern littoral, its life at the port city until it enters South Africa. It further explores various ways to understand the complex nature of the containerisation of a commodity and how African trade is able to be looked at not only via trade across or through the continent but through the Indian Ocean. This paper therefore aims to create a new narrative of the Indian Ocean. / MT2017

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Political Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 406-423). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNR11572

This study seeks to explore the conditions under which producer cartels organized by primary producing countries to increase real external purchasing power (income terms of trade) can most effectively achieve their objectives. / To this effect, conventional cartel theory is expanded so as to include the impact of the major institutional factors, with emphasis on centre-periphery (North-South) relationships, the roles played by governments of producing and consuming countries, by transnational enterprises as well as the particular conditions of supply and demand of various commodities. This framework is applied to bauxite, coffee and sugar industries, because each presents unique characteristics. As a principal focus of this study, a comparative analysis of these commodities is undertaken. / The analysis demonstrates that a bauxite cartel has the potential to gain large monopoly profits, but the evidence is against the long run profitability and stability of coffee and sugar cartels. The differences in the characteristics of the primary commodities differentiate the behaviour of cartels and the expected outcomes. Ultimately, the benefits of successful cartels will have to be measured by how the financial gains are used to transform internal structures, eliminate poverty, and promote social justice. As well as being useful for the study of primary commodity cartels in general, this analysis can also aid policy makers concerned with producer cartels.