TAILIEUCHUNG - Confronting the Coffee: Crisis Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America

Around 2001, I learned of an exciting collaborative at the University of California at Santa Cruz, consisting of faculty, graduate students, and other food- and socialjustice- oriented researchers and activists who informally called themselves the “coffee mafi a.” The collaborative had an ambitious agenda. How, they asked themselves, could an ecological approach be woven together with a social and economic justice agenda that addressed the crisis among coffee producers—small farmers in Nicaragua and other countries—who saw the rapid and painful decline of the price paid to the farmers during the years 1985–2005? And how could the decline in the price paid to farmers (which led to the loss. | Confronting the Coffee Crisis FairTrade Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America edited by Christopher M. Bacon V. Ernesto Mendez Stephen R. Chessman David Goodman Jonathan A. Fox Confronting the Coffee Crisis Food Health and the Environment Series Editor Robert Gottlieb Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy Occidental College Keith Douglass Warner Agroecology in Action Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks Christopher M. Bacon Ernesto Méndez Stephen R. Gliessmann David Goodman and Jonathan A. Fox eds. Confronting the Coffee Crisis Fair Trade Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central .

• Sinh học
• Agroecological Foundations
• Analytical Framework
• Organic Farming
• Environmental Impact
• Grower Typology
• Fair Trade
• The behavioral entry decision
• The fair trade market
• Heterogeneous producers
• Fair trade producers
• The entry decision
• Centre of Development
• Developing Markets
• Building Networks
• Global Justice
• fair
• versus
• free
• strategy
• trade
• business