The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development Hardcover - 2006

Stefano Ponte is senior researcher at the Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. He is co-author (with Peter Gibbon) of 'Africa, Value Chains and the Global Economy' (2004) and author of 'Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Policy Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa' (2002). He has published extensively on commodity trade (especially coffee) and development, global value chains, the political economy of standards, agro-food markets, and rural livelihoods in developing countries.

Benoit Daviron is a French agronomist and agricultural economist at CIRAD. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stefano Ponte is senior researcher at the Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. He is co-author (with Peter Gibbon) of 'Africa, Value Chains and the Global Economy' (2004) and author of 'Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Policy Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa' (2002). He has published extensively on commodity trade (especially coffee) and development, global value chains, the political economy of standards, agro-food markets, and rural livelihoods in developing countries.

Benoit Daviron is a French agronomist and agricultural economist at CIRAD. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.