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Coffee and conflict in Timor Leste: a role for ethical certification

In: Ethical Value Networks in International Trade

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  • Kelle Howson

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Coffee production in Timor-Leste has a dark history, interwoven with colonisation, conflict and exploitation. Since independence, the challenge of coffee upgrading and development has been twofold. Alongside the inequitable conditions of extreme buyer power, dependency and uneven development which have come to characterise the globalised coffee market since the dismantling of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989, the local Timorese coffee network has been hampered by the legacy of historical relations of control and oppression. Independence and Fairtrade certification have reconfigured the production network for Timorese coffee, but producers have faced particularly steep barriers to upgrading. This chapter seeks to situate the ethical value network of Fairtrade coffee production in Timor-Leste within the postcolonial, post-conflict conditions in which it is embedded, in order to gain insight into how those conditions influence the configuration of the network and outcomes for smallholder producers.

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  • Kelle Howson, 2022. "Coffee and conflict in Timor Leste: a role for ethical certification," Chapters, in: Warwick E. Murray & John Overton & Kelle Howson (ed.), Ethical Value Networks in International Trade, chapter 13, pages 207-218, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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