The World Market and Coffee Producers Assessing Ethiopia’s coffee sector to understand the root causes of its problems and remedial solutions to internal problems. This series discusses the scholarly paper, “ Ethiopia’s Coffee Sector: A Bitter or Better Future? ” by Nicolas Petit . The preceding posting, “ What Can Be Done To Save Ethiopia’s Coffee Sector? – Part I ,” was introductory to this and future postings where we will continue the in-depth discussion with extensive quotations from the paper by Nicolas Petit. ----------------------------- Time and again, coffee is compared to oil as one of the most actively traded commodities. Both coffee and oil are traded in current and futures markets, mostly at the New York Stock Exchange market. Yet the most important trait the two commodities share is price volatility due to supply-demand, among many other factors. But, the impact of price volatility is more severe on coffee producers than oil exporters. Oil-exporting countries have le...