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

Autor Deborah Sick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 dec 2007
Sick explores contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to resources, and Fair Trade as she examines how Costa Rican coffee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. Using a commodity approach, she integrates household, regional, and global processes. Farmers of the Golden Bean challenges previous assumptions about the nature of economic change and the sustainability of household producers in the global economy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780875806174
ISBN-10: 0875806171
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press

Recenzii

"Succinct and intriguing. The strengths and contributions of this brief work are many.”— Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
"Offers a formidable blend of quantitative and qualitative evidence, the kind of complementary analysis too often neglected in contemporary ethnography.”— American Anthropologist

Notă biografică

Deborah Sick received her Ph.D. from McGill University. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

Cuprins

Contents
     List of Tables and Figures  ix
     Acknowledgments  xi
     Preface  xiii
     Abbreviations  xxiii
PART ONE:  Coffee and the Family Farmer
1    The Fate of the Family Farmer   5
2    Coffee and the Farming Household   19
3    Los Cafeteros of Pérez Zeledón   34
4     The Political Economy of Coffee-Farming Households   51
 PART TWO:  Strategies for Survival and Mobility
5    Against the Wind: Local Organizations and Change   75
6    To Market, To Market   89
7    When Coffee Is Not Enough   105
8    Family Farmers, Global Markets, and the State   121
9    Fair Trade: A Way Forward?   132
      Glossary   153
      Notes   157
      References Cited   167
      Index   193

Descriere

Sick explores contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to resources, and Fair Trade as she examines how Costa Rican coffee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. Using a commodity approach, she integrates household, regional, and global processes. Farmers of the Golden Bean challenges previous assumptions about the nature of economic change and the sustainability of household producers in the global economy.