Organic Coffee - Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers

Informationen zum Autor Maria Elena Martinez-Torres is from Mexico and is research associate at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) in Berkeley! California. She is also director of Desarrollo Alternativo! AC! a nonprofit organization in Mexico that works toward alternative! sustainable development practices. Klappentext Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America! Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas! Mexico! are creating an environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee. Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers provides a unique and vivid insight into how this coffee is grown! harvested! processed! and marketed to consumers in the North. Zusammenfassung Organic Coffee refutes the myth that organic farming is less productive than chemical-based agriculture and gives us reasons to be hopeful for indigenous peoples and peasant farmers.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Elena Martinez-Torres
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2006
• EAN: 9780896802476
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-247-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Latin America Series; Research in International Studies, Latin America Series
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works