Economist Tiri Kuimbakul writes this discussion paper describing how the international coffee marketing chain works, focusing on how the market ensures that coffee gets from the grower to the consumer and how prices are set by the market. It discusses the process of how coffee gets from the grower to the consumer. This paper contains a description of the process between the grower, processor, exporter and trader. Some useful information included in this paper covers coffee process as it reaches the factories, contracts with exporters, quality control and shipping, trading hedging, and marketing reports.

This coffee report gives an updated summary of the coffee industry and ICO news. The ICO is experiencing its end as the United States is exiting the organisation. However world market and price development show that coffee prices have been higher than they were during the same period of last year.
This report contains updated data on world coffee supply and exports and stock, domestic trends and developments, coffee production by province and sector, market share and performance by exporter, recent studies, and publications. Useful graphs and tables on the data are also included in this report.