Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 390 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780262524803
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9780262026338
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0262267527
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9780262267526
Series Statement:
Food, Health, and the Environment Ser.
Content:
Combining interdisciplinary research with case study analysis at scales ranging from the local to the global, Confronting the Coffee Crisis reveals the promise and the perils of efforts to create a more sustainable coffee industry.
Content:
Intro -- 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, Mexico -- 7 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 Initiatives -- 11 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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pt. 1. Context and analytical frameworkThe international coffee crisis : a review of the issues
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Agroecological foundations for designing sustainable coffee agroecosystems
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The roots of the coffee crisis
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pt. 2. Ecological and social dimensions of producers' responses ; Coffee-production strategies in a changing rural landscape : a case study in central Veracruz, Mexico
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The benefits and sustainability of organic farming by peasant coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico
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A grower typology approach to assessing the environmental impact of coffee farming in Veracruz, Mexico
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Confronting the coffee crisis : can fair trade, organic, and specialty coffees reduce the vulnerability of small-scale farmers in northern Nicaragua?
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Coffee agroforestry in the aftermath of modernization : diversified production and livelihood strategies in post-reform Nicaragua
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Farmers' livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in a coffee landscape of El Salvador
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pt. 3. Alternative south-north networks and markets ; Social dimensions of organic coffee production in Mexico : lessons for ecolabeling initiatives
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Serve and certify : paradoxes of service work in organic coffee certification
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Organic and social certifications : recent developments from the global regulators
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From differentiated coffee markets toward alternative trade and knowledge networks
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Cultivating sustainable coffee : persistent paradoxes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262026338
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780262026338
Language:
English
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