Fair trade and the coffee crisis in the Nicaraguan Segovias, ArtículoSmall coffee producers in Nicaragua have faced a crisis as the coffee export price has halved since the 1990s. This article examines the role of fair trade in stabilizing prices for small coffee producers, and compares the ...
Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez and Stephen R. Gliessman.PelupessyIVOWimIVOEBSCO_bspEuropean Review of Latin American & Caribbean StudiesGutman, P. (2009). Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. Development in Practice, 19(2),...
The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade Cooperatives In December 2001, green coffee commodity prices hit a 30-year low. This deepened the livelihood crisis for millions of coffee farmers and rural communities. The specialty coffee industry responded by scaling up several sustainable...
Their perceptions on the coffee production process and on the producer’s well-being gave rise to coffee certified as fair trade, eco, and organic. The coffee price crisis that impoverished producers occurred at the same time that coffee was gaining popularity—the so-called “Latte Revolution”...
The Fair Trade cooperatives cultivate alternatives amidst crisis The cooperative movement in northern Nicaragua has a long history reaching back early 1900s. Augusto César Sandino formed Nicaragua’s first cooperative in Wiwilí in the 1920s, and later the Somoza dictatorships occasionally promoted ...
Fair trade coffee.[ Fridell, Gavin; ]. Over the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair trade network has emerged as an important international development project. Activists and commentators have been quick to celebrate this sales growth, which has all...
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it was not until the 1980s and 1990s that the term really became part of mainstream thought in the industry (Carroll,2001). Interestingly, the emergence of CSR as a concept roughly maps to the rise of the environmental movement in the developed world. Given how new CSR is as a concept,...
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Fair Tradeimpact monitoringsustainable agricultureagroecologyland-use changeThis research evaluated the impacts of Fair Tradedoi:10.1080/21683565.2014.960549Nicholas BabinAgroecology and Sustainable Food SystemsBabin N. The Coffee Crisis, Fair Trade, and Agroecological Transformation: Impacts on Land-Use Change...