Mas Cafe

Today we traveled to another finca to look at different ways coffee is produced, roasted and marketed. The staff was extremely well versed in their trade and my head is swimming with information. Tomorrow I sit down and start working on my class paper and presentation. I am planning on using rational choice, structural, and game theoretic analyses to determine whether it is possible to devise a system within the free market that will maximize the benefits for producers, buyers (read "Starbucks"), and export firms in order to assuring more equitable distribution of coffee proceeds. I won't bore you with details, but I will likely post the final paper on my political site when I am finished for those of you who actually care.