| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 390 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Food, health, and the environment
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Food, health, and the environment.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
'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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Coffee industry -- Mexico.
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Coffee industry. |
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Mexico. |
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Coffee industry -- Central America.
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Central America. |
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Coffee industry -- Mexico -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Coffee industry -- Central America -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Bacon, Christopher M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Confronting the coffee crisis. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262026338 (DLC) 2007020846 (OCoLC)133465533 |
| ISBN |
9780262267526 (electronic book) |
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0262267527 (electronic book) |
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9781435627970 (electronic book) |
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1435627970 (electronic book) |
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1282099310 |
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9781282099319 |
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0262026333 |
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9780262026338 |
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0262524805 |
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9780262524803 |
| Standard No. |
9786612099311 |
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