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Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households, Global Coffee, and Fair Trade

Review “Offers a formidable blend of quantitative and qualitative evidence, the kind of complementary analysis too often neglected in contemporary ethnography.” - American Anthropologist” This new edition of “Farmers of the Golden Bean” explores the network of local economies that connects coffee farmers with distant consumers in [...]

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Coffee With a Conscience: Why Buy Fair Trade Coffee

Coffee is second only to oil as the most traded commodity in the world, and the United States is its largest consumer. While the average cost for a pound of coffee ranges from $3.00 to almost $40.00, the average third world coffee farmer receives only 25 to 50 cents. Though a good yield can [...]

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

Review “Academics and practitioners working in the field of sustainable development acknowledge that economic, social, political, and ecological dimensions of development are interconnected and need to be understood and addressed simultaneously. Yet few books actually achieve such an integrated approach. Confronting the Coffee Crisis does so admirably and [...]

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Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Paperback)

Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But is it working? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research [...]

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Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This surprisingly gripping travelogue is filled with tales from the “coffeelands,” barely-on-the-map locales in Africa, the Americas, and Asia where coffee farmers struggle to survive. Written with knowledge and good cheer by the founder of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee, the book reads more [...]

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Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival

Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But is it working? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research [...]

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