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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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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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