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The objective of this course is not limited to helping students understand how the current paradigm works and how to operate within the existing structures that prioritize market forces and encourage short-term economic growth at the expense of people and nature.


Rather, it addresses the roots of coffee farming, agriculture, production, and labor. We must begin with the deep origins of the current material reality to return to the surface, coffee farming, to recognize its social and natural composition and understand why it exists and how it came to exist.


This exercise serves to imagine a new paradigm focused on the needs and goals of people that engage with it, and to build the tools and structures necessary to make it a reality.

Objetivos

Develop tools to analyze the realities and interpret events related to coffee production systems and commodity chains; participate in the chain in a more empathetic, strategic, and collaborative manner based on knowledge of the interests, needs, and resources of other chain actors.

  • Conteúdos

    Orientation

    • Framing: logic, knowledge, application of theory, and data usage
    • Essential concepts of economics
    • Essential concepts of finance

    1. The coffee production chain

    • Processes, actors, product, consumption
    • Geographical distribution and historical context of the division of labor
    • Profiles of actors: organization, interests, locations, resources, activities
    • Principal configurations of the chain by region

    2. International agrarian political economy

    • Political economy of agriculture, food, and land use from the pre-industrial era (1700 to the present)
    • International trade theories in economic and social development and the agrarian question (self-sufficiency, mercantilism, absolute and comparative advantage, factor endowments, dependency -> protectionism and liberalism), multilateral institutions, governance of international trade
    • Development and sustainability of agrarian society and its connection to the industrial sector
    • The industrialization and commercialization of agriculture
    • Agroecology as an alternative: social and environmental harmony

    3. The political economy of coffee farming: agribusiness, lifestyle, communion with nature

    • Agricultural production systems: division of labor, capitalist, semi-capitalist, collaborative, state monopoly (the agrarian question)
    • Business models: transnational network, state control, entrepreneurship, collaboration, vertical and horizontal integration
    • The coffee system and its subsystems: inputs, products, rules, and feedback

    4. Coffee production

    • Agronomic systems
    • Productive, ecological, and social sustainability
    • Alternatives: organic coffee farming, agroforestry, regenerative, etc.
    • Variables: genetics, soil, pests, post-harvest processes, infrastructure

    5. The politics of coffee

    • The institutional scope and political history of coffee
    • Power in value chains
    • Power in coffee – evidence for theorizing
    • Distribution of labor, resources, risks, and earnings: evidence for theorization

    6. The global coffee market and its efficiency

    • Efficient market theories and the role of price
    • Exchange rates: beyond currencies (inflation, unequal exchange, purchasing power)
    • The evolution of markets, exchanges, and derivatives – evidence for theorizing
    • Financialization of the coffee chain

    7. Coffee quality

    • Differentiated markets and added value
    • Quality production: investment, natural, social, and technological components
    • The subjective and cultural perception of intrinsic and extrinsic quality
    • Quality assessment, certification, and monetization

    8. Coffee chain logistics

    • Key factors in transformation processes
    •  Impacts of time and space differences
    • Product, money, and information flows

    9. Risk assessment and management in coffee

    • Risk and capital assessment and management
    • Hedging logic and some strategies

    10. Contracting mechanisms and terms of negotiation

    • Contracting variables
    • Relevant institutions and rules of the game (quality standards, safety, arbitration, price fixing)

Destinatários

This course is directed toward those interested in deepening their understanding of the processes and dynamic forces and interests that govern the connections between tropical agricultural labor and consumers, through commodity chains, in this case, that of coffee.


Students interested in topics such as agricultural economics, international trade, and international political economy.


Actors in the coffee chain who want to better appreciate the nuanced implications of their activities and gain tools to analyze the changing environments in which they operate. The target audience may include, for example, roasters, coffee buyers, exporters and importers, coffee chain company owners, and public sector employees or NGOs with an interest in coffee farming or trade.

Requisitos

Basic knowledge on arithmetic and algebra concepts

Candidaturas

Opens - 2  july 2025

Closes - 25 august 2025


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Coordenação e Formadores

Coordenadores: Karl Wienhold

                              Luís Goulão (ISA)

 

Formadores: Karl Wienhold

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