Confronting the coffee crisis : fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America / / edited by Christopher M. Bacon [and others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778334503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008
• ISBN: 0-262-30934-3; 1-282-09931-0; 9786612099311; 0-262-26752-7; 1-4356-2797-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Collana: Food, health, and the environment
• Altri autori (Persone): BaconChristopher M
• Disciplina: 338.1/73730972
• Soggetti: Coffee industry - Mexico; Coffee industry - Central America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I Context and Analytical Framework; 1 The International Coffee Crisis: A Review of the Issues; 2 Agroecological Foundations for Designing Sustainable Coffee Agroecosystems; 3 The Roots of the Coffee Crisis; II Ecological and Social Dimensions of Producers' Responses; 4 Coffee-Production Strategies in a Changing Rural Landscape: A Case Study in Central Veracruz, Mexico; 5 The Benefits and Sustainability of Organic Farming by Peasant Coffee Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico; 6 A Grower Typology Approach to Assessing the Environmental Impact of Coffee Farming in Veracruz, Mexico7 Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce the Vulnerability of Small-Scale Farmers in Northern Nicaragua?; 8 Coffee Agroforestry in the Aftermath of Modernization: Diversified Production and Livelihood Strategies in Post-Reform Nicaragua; 9 Farmers' Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in a Coffee Landscape of El Salvador; III Alternative South-North Networks and Markets; 10 Social Dimensions of Organic Coffee Production in Mexico: Lessons ; for Eco-Labeling Initiatives11 Serve and Certify: Paradoxes of Service Work in Organic Coffee Certification; 12 Organic and Social Certifications: Recent Developments from the Global Regulators; 13 From Differentiated Coffee Markets toward Alternative Trade and Knowledge Networks; 14 Cultivating Sustainable Coffee: Persistent Paradoxes; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: '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.