Research Catalog

Title

Javatrekker : dispatches from the world of fair trade coffee / Dean Cycon.

Author

Cycon, Dean, 1953-

Publication

White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

xvi, 239 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 23 cm

Summary

"In each cup of coffee the major issues of the twenty-first century - globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination - are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business study, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author and coffee entrepreneur Dean Cycon introduces readers to the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible - people that few, if any, outsiders have ever seen. Readers are introduced to the Mamos of Colombia - holy men who believe they are literally holding the world together - despite the effects of climate change caused by us, their "younger brothers." And Cycon takes readers on a trip through an ancient forest in Ethiopia where many believe that coffee was first discovered 1,500 years ago by the goatherd Kaldi. Rich with stories of people, landscapes, and customs, Javatrekker offers a deep appreciation and understanding ofthe global trade and culture of coffee."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• International trade
• Coffee
• Coffee growers
• Coffee industry
• Cycon, Dean, 1953- > Travel

Contents

Prologue: The Inner Worlds of Coffee -- I. Africa -- 1. Miriam's Well, the Emperor's Bed, and Kaldi's Goats (Ethiopia, 2002) -- 2. Fermenting Change, but Don't Cross the Big Man (Kenya, 2005) -- II. South America -- 3. Bridging the Gap (Peru, 2003) -- 4. Global Warning: Climate Change, Conflict, and Culture (Colombia, 2007) -- III. Central America -- 5. The Flickering Candle of Freedom (Guatemala, 1993) -- 6. Tracking the Death Train (Mexico/El Salvador, 2005) -- 7. Coffee, Land Mines, and Hope (Nicaragua, 2001) -- IV. Asia -- 8. Good Friends, Cold Beer...and a Water Buffalo (Sumatra, 2003) -- 9. The Three-Hundred-Man March (Papua New Guinea, 2004).

ISBN

• 9781933392707
• 1933392703

LCCN

2007028222

OCLC

• OCN153580280
• 153580280
• SCSB-5926501

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries