Publications

This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments.

This report shows how sustainability standards can be a powerful tool for post-pandemic recovery.

The global pandemic has hit small farmers with disruptions in health, food security, transport, finance and demand. It has also increased the cost of doing business. Smallholder farmers, already dealing with the effects of a climate and price crisis, are taking emergency measures for resilience. At...

Literature review of interdependencies between public and private standards. It focuses on how governments could engage with private standards to impact their legitimacy and significance in the market; provides examples of complementarities between public and private standards. Part three of a...

Les normes et réglementations ont un impact majeur sur la compétitivité des PME. Se mettre aux normes pour échanger, le thème de cette édition annuelle de la Perspective de la compétitivité des PME, permet aux PME d’accroître leurs chances de se connecter aux chaînes de valeur...

Le Guide du Café est la source d'informations la plus complète, la plus pratique et la plus impartiale au monde sur le commerce international du café. Il couvre les questions commerciales concernant les producteurs de café, les négociants, les exportateurs, les sociétés de transport, les...

A comparison of sustainability schemes, as well as an overview of the trends in the markets for specialty and sustainable coffees.Coffee niche markets provide opportunities for producers in developing countries to increase their incomes. This paper, drawn from ITC’s new book on the coffee trade,...

Voluntary sustainability standards are in the mainstream, and no longer a novelty for niche markets. This second global report outlines data on area, production volume and producers for 14 major sustainability standards across bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybeans, cane sugar, tea and...

Cette publication de 25 pages donne un aperçu de la production, des exportations, des importations, de la transformation et de la consommation. La Chine est à la fois exportatrice et importatrice de café vert et de café torréfié. Les quantités produites et consommées sont faibles dans le...

Le café est le plus important récolte du monde agricole en termes de volumes d’export/import ; il est exporté par 60 pays et est l'un des rares produits cultivées principalement par les petits agriculteurs. Ce rapport présente un aperçu des tendances du marché pour le café certifié...

Private sustainability standards can be an effective tool to foster sustainable development. This paper outlines conditions for sustainability and potential obstacles. Private sustainability standards can bring benefits to producers and the supply chain. This literature review analyses why the...

Standards and regulations have a major impact on SME competitiveness. By meeting the standard for trade, the theme of this year’s SME Competitiveness Outlook report, SMEs increase their chances to connect to international value chains and consumers in a socially and environmentally sustainable...