Empowering Coffee Traders? The Coffee Value Chain from Nicaraguan Fair Trade Farmers to Finnish Consumers

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-270

  Valkila, Joni ^a   Haaparanta, Pertti ^b   Niemi, Niina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

coffee; consumers; cooperatives; Fair Trade; farmers; Finland; labor; Nicaragua; retail prices; value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349306803     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0508-z     Document Type: Article

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