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.

Economist Duncan Overfield writes this discussion paper on smallholder and marketing groups and discusses implementation methods and current development levels of group marketing, the economic performance of marketing groups and policy recommendations. It contains their performance assessment over the period of 1989 to 1992.

Micro economist Duncan Overfield and Economist Kessy Kufinale wrote this paper as an economic assessment of coffee research and research priorities. It includes discussion on economic context of research, economic value of coffee research and research priorities. This paper also presents proposals for future monitoring and evaluation.

This paper is on the smallholder coffee system production costs, grower returns and economic sustainability and it is concerned with costs of production in the smallholder coffee sector and the associated economic returns to its labour. It contains (1) smallholder production levels and associated yields, (2) labour inputs and appropriate economic evaluation (3) Smallholder production costs, (4) prices and marketing patterns (5) grower returns, (6) Coffee production and labour inputs and (7) policy recommendations for sustainability.

This paper by Duncan Overfield is a reprint of a chapter in Agricultural Development Strategies for Melanesia: Tough Choices edited by Fleming, E.M. and Hardaker, J.B to be published by ANU Press, Canberra, Australia. It discusses household objectives and constraints over the development of smallholder coffee farming systems in Papua New Guinea. It covers household objectives on producing enough to eat, cash income generation, risk management, complimentary roles, internal and external constraints as well policy implications for the 21st Century.

Economist Kessy Kufinale writes this discussion paper on the case of Catimor in Papua New Guinea. This paper evaluates Catimor, a larger research project in PNG, to provide a justification for its introduction in PNG and to provide economic values and establishment in this field.

This paper describes plantation cost of production survey in 1995. It discusses the survey, its methodology, characteristics of respondent plantations and factories and discusses the results. It also refers to relevant issues of labour costs, profitability, competitiveness and yields.

This coffee report discusses market development, global trends, quotes, production, exports, promotion, bounty rates and export prices. It also covers coffee imports, retail prices, mini loans for smallholders and domestic consumption. This report contains useful graphs and figures.

This coffee report discusses market development in coffee industry. It covers global trends and quotas, price projections to 2000, production and export figures. This report also contains useful graphs.

This coffee report of October 1988 continues to report data on the coffee market developments, global trends and quotas, consumption and production, export revenues, bounty rates, and coffee prices. It contains updated information on the average values of sales since previous report as well as forecasted production and stock information.