Overview

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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Author:   Deborah Sick
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Northern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780875806174

ISBN 10:   0875806171
Pages:   191
Publication Date:   05 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 P\u00e9rez Zeled\u00f3n 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

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Offers a formidable blend of quantitative and qualitative evidence, the kind of complementary analysis too often neglected in contemporary ethnography. - American Anthropologist

Author Information

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.

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