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Author Biswas-Tortajada, Andrea

Title Sustainability in Coffee Production : Creating Shared Value Chains in Colombia
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acronyms, abbreviations and definitions; Weights and measures; List of figures and tables; Foreword: shared value from coffee; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Why Creating Shared Value?; 2 The world's beverage of choice; Redefining the coffee sector; 3 The shared C in coffee and Colombia: complexity; Price volatility; Ageing factors of production; Falling productivity; Climate change: making the already variable even more unpredictable; Succession: where will the new farmers come from?; Women; Colombia's coffee architecture; Peace wears yellow
The International Coffee Agreement, the quota system and the crisis that followedHalf full cups; The promises of a national policy for rural development; 4 Nestlé in Colombia; Sharing value locally; Human capital; Quality archetypes; The coffee roads; Reducing footprints; Stability anchors; Agents of change; Sustainability is a global effort; 5 From farm to cup: the Nescafé Plan; Partnerships; The record in Colombia; 6 Quality, productivity and sustainability: the AAA Sustainable Quality"!Program; Commitments; Moving towards 100 per cent sustainable coffee sourcing
From farm to landfill? What is happening to the capsulesCarbon off and in setting; The sustainability continuum; The record; Picking friends; Assessing sustainability; 7 Lessons learned: future challenges and opportunities; Local partnerships that work; Changing generational paradigms; At the core of competitiveness: relevant technical assistance; Capacity building; Sharing the spotlight between farmers and consumers; From activities to objectives and from transactions to interactions; Puzzling implications of human capital creation; 8 Further thoughts; Postscript; Epilogue; Bibliography
Notes Includes index
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Subject Nestlé -- Management
SUBJECT Nestlé fast
Subject Coffee industry -- Social aspects -- Colombia
Coffee industry -- Environmental aspects -- Colombia
Social responsibility of business -- Colombia
Sustainable agriculture -- Colombia
Coffee industry -- Environmental aspects
Coffee industry -- Social aspects
Management
Social responsibility of business
Sustainable agriculture
Colombia
Form Electronic book
Author Biswas, Asit K
ISBN 9781315697505
1315697505