Confronting the coffee crisis : fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America /

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'Confronting the Coffee Crisis' explores small-scale farming the political economy of the global coffee industry, & initiatives that claim to promote more sustainable rural development in coffee-producing communities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bacon, Christopher M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Colección:Food, health, and the environment.
Temas:
Coffee industry > Mexico.
Coffee industry > Central America.
Coffee industry > Mexico > Case studies.
Coffee industry > Central America > Case studies.
Café > Commerce > Mexique.
Café > Commerce > Amérique centrale.
Café > Commerce > Mexique > Études de cas.
Café > Commerce > Amérique centrale > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Coffee industry
Kaffeeproduktion
Fairer Handel
Nachhaltigkeit
Central America
Mexico
Mexiko
Mittelamerika
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Context and analytical framework
  • The international coffee crisis : a review of the issues / David Goodman
  • Agroecological foundations for designing sustainable coffee agroecosystems / Stephen R. Gliessmann
  • The roots of the coffee crisis / Seth Petchers and Shayna Harris
  • pt. 2. Ecological and social dimensions of producers' responses
  • Coffee-production strategies in a changing rural landscape : a case study in central Veracruz, Mexico / Laura Trujillo
  • The benefits and sustainability of organic farming by peasant coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico / Maria Elena Martínez-Torres
  • A grower typology approach to assessing the environmental impact of coffee farming in Veracruz, Mexico / Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti
  • Confronting the coffee crisis : can fair trade, organic, and specialty coffees reduce the vulnerability of small-scale farmers in northern Nicaragua? / Christopher M. Bacon
  • Coffee agroforestry in the aftermath of modernization : diversified production and livelihood strategies in post-reform Nicaragua / Silke Mason Westphal
  • Farmers' livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in a coffee landscape of El Salvador / V. Ernesto Méndez
  • pt. 3. Alternative south-north networks and markets
  • Social dimensions of organic coffee production in Mexico : lessons for ecolabeling initiatives / David B. Bray, José Luis Plaza Sanchez, and Ellen Contreras Murphy
  • Serve and certify : paradoxes of service work in organic coffee certification / Tad Mutersbaugh
  • Organic and social certifications : recent developments from the global regulators / Sasha Courville
  • From differentiated coffee markets toward alternative trade and knowledge networks / Roberta Jaffe and Christopher M. Bacon
  • Cultivating sustainable coffee : persistent paradoxes / Christopher M. Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez, and Jonathan A. Fox.

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