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Value chain analysis and market power in the commodity processing with application to the cocoa and coffee sectors

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  • Christopher L. Gilbert
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Value chain analysis extends traditional supply chain analysis by locating values to each stage of the chain. This can result in a �cake division� fallacy in which value at one stage is seen as being at the expense of value at another. Over the past three decades, the coffee and cocoa industries have witnessed dramatic falls in the producer (i.e. farmer) share in rental price. Both industries are highly concentrated at the processing stage. Nevertheless, developments in the producer and retail markets are largely unconnected and there is no evidence the falls in the producer share are the result of exercise of monopoly-monopsony power. The explanation of declining producer shares is more straightforward � processing, marketing and distribution costs, incurred in consuming countries have tended to increase over time while production costs at the origin have declined.

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  • Christopher L. Gilbert, 2006. "Value chain analysis and market power in the commodity processing with application to the cocoa and coffee sectors," Department of Economics Working Papers 0605, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia.
    • Handle: RePEc:trn:utwpde:0605
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    1. Atanu Ghoshray, 2009. "On Price Dynamics for Different Qualities of Coffee," Review of Market Integration, India Development Foundation, vol. 1(1), pages 103-118, April.
    2. Catherine ARAUJO BONJEAN & Jean-François BRUN, 2014. "Chocolate price fluctuations may cause depression: an analysis of price pass-through in the cocoa chain," Working Papers 201420, CERDI.
    3. Valkila, Joni, 2009. "Fair Trade organic coffee production in Nicaragua -- Sustainable development or a poverty trap?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(12), pages 3018-3025, October.
    4. Joni Valkila & Pertti Haaparanta & Niina Niemi, 2010. "Empowering Coffee Traders? The Coffee Value Chain from Nicaraguan Fair Trade Farmers to Finnish Consumers," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 97(2), pages 257-270, December.
    5. Stephanie Barrientos, 2013. "Gender production networks: Sustaining cocoa-chocolate sourcing in Ghana and India," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 18613, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    6. Atanu Ghoshray, 2010. "The Extent Of The World Coffee Market," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(1), pages 97-107, January.
    7. Grumiller, Jan & Grohs, Hannes & Raza, Werner & Staritz, Cornelia & Tröster, Bernhard, 2018. "Strategies for sustainable upgrading in global value chains: The Ivorian and Ghanaian cocoa processing sectors," Policy Notes 24/2018, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE).
    8. Xiomara F. Quiñones-Ruiz, 2020. "The Diverging Understandings of Quality by Coffee Chain Actors—Insights from Colombian Producers and Austrian Roasters," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-19, July.
    9. Catherine Araujo Bonjean & Jean-François Brun, 2014. "Chocolate price fluctuations may cause depression: an analysis of price pass-through in the cocoa chain," CERDI Working papers halshs-01074157, HAL.

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