Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Confronting the coffee crisis. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 (OCoLC)654738745 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher M Bacon; et al |
| ISBN: | 9780262026338 0262026333 9780262524803 0262524805 |
| OCLC Number: | 133465533 |
| Description: | xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Food, health, and the environment. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Christopher M. Bacon ... [et al.]. |
| More information: |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"This book is provocative and innovative in its comprehensive approach to researching and covering the coffee system from field to cup." --Tom Hanlon-Wilde, Co-owner, Equal Exchange "The recent coffee crisis in more than fifty countries has exposed, more explicitly than ever, the harsh vulnerability of commodity producers. The considerable human and ecological costs borne by producers and their communities have stimulated a sharp look at the little understood impact of sustainability efforts such as traditional systems, fair trade, or organics. The authors' interdisciplinary, ground-level research is an excellent contribution to current debates as it insightfully explores the interstices and the outcomes of human and environmental collaborations pursued by producers, NGOs, and increasingly, by private firms. The authors' considerable field experience is evident as they go beyond simple black and white analyses to look more deeply at the locally-grounded foundations of sustainability from a holistic agro-ecological perspective." --Daniele Giovannucci, author of The State of Sustainable Coffee and Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply and Demand "Academics and practitioners working in the field of sustainable development acknowledge that economic, social, political, and ecological dimensions of development are interconnected and need to be understood and addressed simultaneously. Yet few books actually achieve such an integrated approach. Confronting the Coffee Crisis does so admirably and should become a standard reference for all concerned not only with the world of coffee but also with the broader challenge of inclusive development." --Peter Utting, Deputy Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Read more...
Tags
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(9)
- Coffee industry -- Mexico.
- Coffee industry -- Central America.
- Coffee industry -- Mexico -- Case studies.
- Coffee industry -- Central America -- Case studies.
- Kaffeeproduktion.
- Fairer Handel.
- Nachhaltigkeit.
- Mexiko.
- Mittelamerika.
User lists with this item (5)
- Things to Check Out(95 items)
by ajt91 updated about 3 days ago
- Fair Trade(2 items)
by mybarra updated 2011-03-27
- Things to Check Out(157 items)
by pt36 updated 2011-11-12
- Indigenous Peoples, Mapping, Climate Change(251 items)
by TEAGUEHK updated 2010-10-09
- Fair Trade(27 items)
by amohr
