Abstract
Dr. Melissa Vogt considers the influence of Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade in coffee farming communities of Costa Rica from 2009-2019. Sustainability certifications schemes are working amongst a range of sustainability efforts, unique by their intra market location. The intentions of each certification scheme must be clarified prior to evaluation and their influence considered amongst contextually specific historic and contemporary considerations, and alongside the range of sustainability efforts. The advantages and disadvantages, opportunities for improvement and how alternative mechanisms might improve upon or complement sustainability certification schemes are explained. An epilogue considers how prioritisation of coffee as a cash crop may align with sustainability. The influence on biodiversity, community health and income, and the possible implication of reduced coffee crop density for consumers, the market and farming landscapes is considered. How sustainability standards might better encourage more ambitious sustainability in farming landscapes is for future consideration.
Highlights
Brief history of coffeeBotanic background of coffeeThe Bean Belt: who wears the pants?Collapse of the International Coffee AgreementMarket SaturationThe contrast of a coffee crisis Summary53Chapter 4 Sustainability Certifications Introduction55Sustainability certificationsSustainability certifications and coffee
The capabilities approach expands the evaluation of poverty to consider “opulence, utilities, primary goods or rights but functionings – [as] a measure that encompasses these other units of evaluation” (Comin 2001, 4). He proposed that we evaluate development in terms of “the expansion of the capabilities of people to lead the kinds of lives they value – and have reason to value” (Evans 2002, 55)
Participating in the interviews assists the interviewer to collect an understanding of perspectives, opinions, stories and narratives that exist in Costa Rica within the coffee industry, it can provide the opportunity for participants to reflect
Summary
Brief history of coffeeBotanic background of coffeeThe Bean Belt: who wears the pants?Collapse of the International Coffee AgreementMarket SaturationThe contrast of a coffee crisis Summary53Chapter 4 Sustainability Certifications Introduction55Sustainability certificationsSustainability certifications and coffee. I was to walk two hundred metres and turn right, to find the house with a blue façade and a family waiting for me It was a small coffee farming community in the south of Costa Rica surrounded by mountains, forest and coffee, slightly run down; the community was similar in design to a town on the Caribbean Coast, Cahuita. Living between Adelaide and Melbourne I became involved in coordinating Fairtrade fortnights in Adelaide, a national marketing and promotion activity for newly introduced fairtrade certified products which were sold mainly in Oxfam shops and in Coles through Australia. During these promotional activities, Fairtrade organised for representatives of Fairtrade certified cooperatives to visit Australia and speak about their experiences with
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