Coffee

Coffee is the world's leading agricultural resource, in value terms. Coffee growing generates income and jobs in producing countries, and is primarily practised on small family farms.

Books and documents

Sustainable development and tropical agri-chains, Estelle Biénabe, Alain Rival, Denis Loeillet (ed.), Springer, 2017.
Economics and ecology of diversification: The case of tropical tree crops, François Ruf, Götz Schroth (ed.), Springer, 2015.
Avancées et perspectives de la recherche internationale sur le café, André Charrier, Benoît Bertrand, Philippe Lashermes, Cahiers agricultures, special issue, 2012.
Une histoire des plantes coloniales, du cacao à la vanille, Serge Volper, Quæ, 2011.
Ecosystem services from agriculture and agroforestry: measurement and payment, Bruno Rapidel, Fabrice DeClerck, Jean-François Le Coq, John Beer, Earthscan, 2011.
Le commerce équitable en question, Isabelle Vagneron, Nicolas Bricas, Cahiers agricultures, special issue, 2010.
Coffee: growing, processing, sustainable production, J.N. Wintgens (ed.), Wiley, 2009.
The Coffee paradox: global markets, commodity trade and the elusive promise of development, Stefano Ponte, Benoît Daviron, Zed Books, 2005 (also in Spanish).
Coffee: terroirs and qualities, Christophe Montagnon (ed.), Quæ, 2007.
Terres de café, M. Jeanguyot, M. Séguier-Guis, D. Duris, CIRAD-Magellan, 2003.

Scientific publications

See CIRAD's publications on coffee