Table of Contents
Introduction, Why Study the Coffee Industry? A Brief History of Pre- and Post-Independence Papua New Guinea, Methodological and 111eoretical Considerations of the Study, The Origin of the Coffee Industry in Colonial Papua New Guinea, Australian Colonialism in Papua New Guinea, The 'Gold that Grows on Trees': White Planter Success in the Early Days of the Coffee Industry, The Spread of Coffee Production to Black Households, 28 A Colony Built on Coffee Beans: The Important Role Played by the Colonial Administration in the Origin of the Coffee Industry, Producing Coffee 3 Exchanging Coffee, An Industry Designed for White Planter Dominance at the Export, Processor and Coffee Buyer Levels, White Planter Greed and the Failure to Sponsor a Prosperous, but Controlled, Black Elite, 4 Administering the Coffee Industry in Colonial Papua New Guinea, The Establishment of an Agricultural Department to Police Rural Industry, Refining the Channels of Consultation and Control for White Planters: The Colkc Marketing Board (CMB), 5 Crises in the Colonial Coffee industry The Netting Crisis of 1966-67 as an Example of the Dependence of While Planners on Australian and International Goodwill, The Suppressed Crisis of the Disadvantaged Smallholder: Coffee but no Consultation, 6 Transition to· Post-Colonial Politics in Papua New Guinea Introduction, The 1972 Election and the Political Demise of the White Planters, The 1972 Crisis in the Coffee Industry, Nationalism in Papua New Guinea, 7 Who Owns the Coffee Industry in Independent Papua New Guinea? The Struggle Between Black and Black Technocrats to Fill the Vacuum I .City White Planners in the Coffee Industry, 8 Dividing up the Coffee Industry Among Black Elites 9 The Role of Technocrats in the Post-Colonial Coffee Industry The Department of Primary industry (DPI), Technocrats Gain Control of the Coffee Industry Board (CIB) in the Name of Small holders, 10 Case Studies of Elite Exploitation of Smallholders , Part I The 20-Hectare Coffee Development Programme, Part II The Coffee Rust Outbreak of 1986, 11 The International Coffee Agreement, World Coffee and the International Coffee Agreement (ICA), Explaining the Establishment of the ICA, How Taste and History Have Been Structured into the Agreement to Advantage Dig Producers and Big Consumers, Why Is the International Coffee Agreement the World's Longest Surviving Commodity Agreement? 12 The Politics of International Coffee Regulation, The Role of Quotas, Price and Production Controls: Who Benefits? Coffee Regulation in the 1980s, 13 The Use of liberal, Negotiated, Institutionalised Global Commodity Agreements to Cause the Underdevelopment of Papua New Guinea's Coffee Industry, Conclusion