The paths of coffee: A brief economic history of coffee in Colombia

Estrada, Fernando (2011): The paths of coffee: A brief economic history of coffee in Colombia. Published in: Credencial Historia, Banco de la Republica , Vol. 261, No. IV (September 2011): pp. 1-16.

Abstract

This paper develops a brief history of coffee in Colombia identifying the processes of change in the geography and populations. From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, coffee cultivation represented the basis of household income. Changes in rural and urban culture of the nineteenth century were influenced by the coffee trade, likewise the fundamental transformations of the Colombian economy during the first half of the twentieth century. The Colombian economy and the idiosyncrasy of its people still depend on coffee, especially in rural areas and the Andean ranges.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Colombia, coffee, Latin America History, household income
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H8 - Miscellaneous Issues; N - Economic History > N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics ; Industrial Structure ; Growth ; Fluctuations > N16 - Latin America ; Caribbean; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General > Q01 - Sustainable Development; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness; N - Economic History > N0 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General; N - Economic History > N8 - Micro-Business History > N86 - Latin America ; Caribbean; H - Public Economics > H8 - Miscellaneous Issues > H80 - General; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A14 - Sociology of Economics

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