Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers - Couverture souple

Martinez-Torres, Maria Elena

 
9780896802476: Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0896802477 ISBN 13 : 9780896802476
Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Ohio University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0896802477
ISBN 13 
9780896802476
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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