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Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers

Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are creating an environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee. Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers provides a unique and vivid insight into how this coffee is grown, harvested, processed, and marketed to consumers in [...]

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The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development

Review ‘An important contribution to the literarature on primary products and economic development.’ - Diego Pizano, International and Economic Advisor, National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia ‘Daviron and Ponte have done a masterful job both of showing the limits to ‘free’ trade in agricultural products [...]

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The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (Paperback)

Review ‘An important contribution to the literarature on primary products and economic development.’ - Diego Pizano, International and Economic Advisor, National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia ‘Daviron and Ponte have done a masterful job both of showing the limits to ‘free’ trade in agricultural products [...]

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