Description
Book SynopsisExploring contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to resources, and Fair Trade, this book examines how Costa Rican coffee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. It includes an introduction as well as a chapter on Fair Trade.
Trade Review"Offers a formidable blend of quantitative and qualitative evidence, the kind of complementary analysis too often neglected in contemporary ethnography." - American Anthropologist"
Table of ContentsContents
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
