… ” agenda, exploring how the coffee farmers could achieve what the great English writer
Raymond Williams called the critical need to develop “sustainable livelihoods” in an era of unjust …

… authors of Confronting the Coffee Crisis analyse in detail, focusing on Mexican and Central
… certification (which now includes a variety of fair-trade, organic, and shade-grown labels). …

… coffee farming, rather oddly sandwiched between two chapters on the origins of the coffee
crisis… The first of these essays, by Goodman, provides a brief but cogent analysis of the crisis …

… Second, historically strong cooperative organizations could get better access to fair trade …
of their living con ditions by the coffee crisis, despite the better prices paid by certified coffees. …

… Confronting the Coffee Crisis examines the drivers and consequences of the most recent
drop in coffee prices that in December 2001, reached a nominal 30-year low and a 100-year …

… trying to understand the global coffee crisis, the crisis of neo-liberal economic policy … coffee,
fair trade and organic certification, and the role of the poor in global justice and sustainability …

… or other forms of fair trade coffee hover around two percent of the global coffee market, a
discouraging outcome after so much effort. Overall, Confronting the Coffee Crisis is a very …

… ) and some medium-sized (14-35 ha) landholders in Mexico and Central America have
adopted these modern … Sustainable livelihood projects refer to the process of making a …

… security issues, the coffee crisis and Oportunidades/Progresa. … In the case of the Mexican
producers in this study, fair trade … confronting the fair trade movement, as we shall see later.11 …

… to the post-1999 coffee crisis. A participatory action research … participatory approach to
sustainable livelihoods (Bebbington… scale coffee farmer livelihoods in Central America and Mexico…