🌾 Agriculture & Food
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The coffee industry needs total and complete restructuring, as it perpetuates a colonial trading model
The coffee industry needs to be restructured because it perpetuates the colonial trading model - impoverishing the African continent. This is manifested in three main ways, firstly through the overarching uneven structure of the global value chain (GVC), drawing on Vorley (2003). Secondly, due to high infrastructural inadequacies, and thirdly, due to the ever-increasing and ever -evident “paradox ...