Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee - Couverture souple

Cycon, Dean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933392703 ISBN 13 : 9781933392707

Editeur : Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2007

Synopsis

Javatrekker Drawing upon his wide range of experience and study, the founder and owner of Deans Beans Organic Coffee explores the untold origins of coffee through his travels to ten different producing countries. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century globalization, immigration, women s rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author Dean Cycon brings readers face-to-face with the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible. Second only to oil in terms of its value, the coffee trade is complex with several levels of middlemen removing the 28 million growers in fifty distant countries far from you and your morning cup. And, according to Cycon, 99 percent of the people involved in the coffee economy have never been to a coffee village. They let advertising and images from the major coffee companies create their worldview. Cycon changes that in this compelling book, taking the reader on a tour of ten countries in nine chapters through his passionate eye and unique perspective. He has travelled extensively throughout the world s tropical coffeelands, and shows readers places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen. Along the way, readers come to realize the promise and hope offered by sustainable business principles and the products derived from cooperation, fair pricing, and profit sharing.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dean Cycon owns Dean's Beans, an all-organic, all-fair-trade, all-kosher coffee roaster in Orange, MA. He and his company lead the industry in commitment to true fair-trade principles. Projects funded through Dean's Beans include a revolving loan fund to dig wells in Ethiopia, a coffee roaster/café in Nicaragua owned and operated by a prosthetics clinic giving limbs and therapy to landmine victims, reforestation in Peru, and coffee de-pulping machines in Papua New Guinea.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933392703
• ISBN 13: 9781933392707
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300