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

Title
Confronting the coffee crisis : fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America / edited by Christopher M. Bacon [and others].
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
Bacon, Christopher M.
Description
xii, 390 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Food, health, and the environment
Uniform Title
Food, health, and the environment.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Robert Gottlieb -- I. Context and Analytical Framework -- 1. The International Coffee Crisis: A Review of the Issues / David Goodman -- 2. Agroecological Foundations for Designing Sustainable Coffee Agroecosystems / Stephen R. Gliessmann -- 3. The Roots of the Coffee Crisis / Seth Petchers and Shayna Harris -- II. Ecological and Social Dimensions of Producers' Responses -- 4. Coffee-Production Strategies in a Changing Rural Landscape: A Case Study in Central Veracruz, Mexico / Laura Trujillo -- 5. The Benefits and Sustainability of Organic Farming by Peasant Coffee Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico / Maria Elena Martinez-Torres -- 6. A Grower Typology Approach to Assessing the Environmental Impact of Coffee Farming in Veracruz, Mexico / Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti -- 7. Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce the Vulnerability of Small-Scale Farmers in Northern Nicaragua? / Christopher M. Bacon -- 8. Coffee Agroforestry in the Aftermath of Modernization: Diversified Production and Livelihood Strategies in Post-Reform Nicaragua / Silke Mason Westphal -- 9. Farmers' Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in a Coffee Landscape of El Salvador / V. Ernesto Mendez -- III. Alternative South-North Networks and Markets -- 10. Social Dimensions of Organic Coffee Production in Mexico: Lessons for Eco-Labeling Initiatives / David B. Bray, Jose Luis Plaza Sanchez and Ellen Contreras Murphy -- 11. Serve and Certify: Paradoxes of Service Work in Organic Coffee Certification / Tad Mutersbaugh -- 12. Organic and Social Certifications: Recent Developments from the Global Regulators / Sasha Courville -- 13. From Differentiated Coffee Markets toward Alternative Trade and Knowledge Networks / Roberta Jaffe and Christopher M. Bacon -- 14. Cultivating Sustainable Coffee: Persistent Paradoxes / Christopher M. Bacon, V. Ernesto Mendez and Jonathan A. Fox.
ISBN
  • 9780262026338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780262524803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262026333 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0262524805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007020846
OCLC
  • 133465533
  • ocn133465533
  • SCSB-9181197
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries