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Creaming off commodity profits: Europe’s re-export boom and Africa’s earnings crisis in the coffee and cocoa sectors

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  • Angus Elsby

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This briefing uses historical export data and a combination of institutional sources to track how mark-ups on African coffee and cocoa exports have changed relative to European coffee and cocoa re-exports in recent decades. It finds that African coffee is now re-exported from Europe at an average mark-up of over 300%, compared to just over 50% in the 1970s and 1980s. These trends have prompted a crisis for producers, and reflect the growth, expansion and extended control over production of European agribusiness, which European governments have encouraged through the implementation of competition, corporate tax and regulatory policies favourable to agribusiness, in addition to the suppression of national and international initiatives to manage global supply.

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  • Angus Elsby, 2020. "Creaming off commodity profits: Europe’s re-export boom and Africa’s earnings crisis in the coffee and cocoa sectors," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(166), pages 638-650, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:47:y:2020:i:166:p:638-650
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1842186
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    1. Bepi Tattara, 2023. "Ill capitalismo in africa: lotta per le risorse e i mercati," ECONOMIA E SOCIET? REGIONALE, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2023(2), pages 115-127.
    2. Jörg Wiegratz & Pritish Behuria & Christina Laskaridis & Lebohang Liepollo Pheko & Ben Radley & Sara Stevano, 2023. "Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post‐pandemic Development Studies," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 54(5), pages 921-953, September.

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