Coffeeland

Coffeeland
Author: Augustine Sedgewick
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0143110748

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history—a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

Coffee Consumption and Industry Strategies in Brazil

Coffee Consumption and Industry Strategies in Brazil
Author: Luciana Florêncio de Almeida
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2019-09-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128147229

Coffee Consumption and Industry Strategies in Brazil, the latest release in the Consumer Science and Strategic Marketing series, provides an overview of the coffee sector, focusing on marketing strategies, consumer behavior, and strategies for transforming coffee consumption, production and retailing. The book presents the importance of an academician-practitioner perspective to bridge the gap between scholars and managers, and between business schools and the entrepreneurial world. Appropriate for researchers in the fields of food retail and producing, food marketing, consumer behavior, consumer science, agribusiness marketing and strategy, food industry strategy, undergraduate and post-graduate students studying marketing, consumer behavior, strategy, agribusiness marketing and strategy, practitioners in the food industry, marketing managers, and marketing and strategy consultants, this book is a must-read for those contributing to the coffee industry. - Presents strategies for transforming coffee consumption, production and retailing - Addresses market outlook, factors and trends - Outlines coffee industry strategies through business cases that highlight innovative practices - Discuss and present the certification role in the coffee producing strategy and retailing - The coffee waves and the specialty coffee impact in the consumption and at the retail level - Studies the role of retail and the consumer - Includes questions and exercises based on case studies and concepts