Module 1: The History of Coffee’s Global Trade through the Lens of International Development

Part 1: “Colonial Development”: Colonialism through the 1962 United National Coffee Conference

We begin by exploring the origins of coffee’s long, complex, and unjust export supply chain that began through the transatlantic slave trade and European settler colonialism with case studies focused on British colonialism in Kenya and India.

Part 2: “Coffee Statecraft”: The 1963 International Coffee Agreement through its 1989 collapse

This lecture provides a deep dive into the global dynamics that led to the creation of the International Coffee Agreement, and will discuss its goals, its purpose, and its collapse in 1989 that set the stage for the challenges in coffee as we now experience them in our 21st century global industry.

The course is delivered over 2 x 2 hour lectures with questions and answers.