Brewing Justice Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival

Name: Brewing Justice Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
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ISBN: 9780520249592

ISBN-10: 0520249593

ISBN-13: 9780520249592

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel Jaffee

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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 and detailed 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 in Zapotec indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca,Brewing Justicefollows the members of the cooperative Michiza, whose organic coffee is sold on the international fair trade market. It compares these families to conventional farming families in the same region, who depend on local middlemen and are vulnerable to the fluctuations of the…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Contents


List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Introduction



A Movement or a Market?



Coffee, Commodities, Crisis



One Region, Two Markets



The Difference a Market Makes: Livelihoods and Labor



A Sustainable Cup? Fair Trade, Shade-Grown Coffee, and Organic Production



Eating and Staying on the Land: Food Security, Migration, and Fair Trade



Dancing with the Devil? Consuming Fair Trade



"Mejor, Pero No Muy Bien Que Digamos": The Limits of Fair Trade



Strengthening Fair Trade Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Appendix


Research Methods


Notes


Bibliography


Index