Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers (Ohio Ris Latin America) - Softcover

Martinez-Torres, Maria Elena

 
9780896802476: Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers (Ohio Ris Latin America)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0896802477 ISBN 13: 9780896802476
Verlag: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding 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 Mexico and in the north.
Maria Elena Martinez-Torres explains how Mayan farmers have built upon their ethnic networks to make a crucial change in their approach to agriculture. Taking us inside Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and scene of the 1994 Zapatista uprising, she examines the anatomy of the ongoing organic coffee boom and the fair-trade movement. The organic coffee boom arose as very poor farmers formed cooperatives, revalued their ethnic identity, and improved their land through organic farming. The result has been significant economic benefits for their families and ecological benefits for the future sustainability of agriculture in the region.
Organic Coffee refutes the myth that organic farming is less productive than chemical-based agriculture and gives us reasons to be hopeful for indigenous peoples and peasant farmers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Maria Elena Martinez-Torres is a faculty member in the Environment and Society Program of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology-Southeast Campus (CIESAS-Sureste) in Chiapas, Mexico. She is also a research associate at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) in Berkeley, California. She directs Desarrollo Alternativo (DESAL), a Mexican nongovernmental organization devoted to research, analysis, and outreach concerning alternative development.

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0896802477
ISBN 13 
9780896802476
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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4831 GR
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