Latin America: News and Articles
El Salvador:
see articles at: http://www.uvm.edu/~emendez/?Page=Publications.html
La Prensa Grafica paper: http://www.laprensagrafica.com/portada/default.asp
Diario CoLatino: http://www.diariocolatino.com/
El Faro web paper: http://www.elfaro.net/default_actual.asp
PRISMA: http://www.prisma2.org.sv/web/home.php
Costa Rica:
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/costaric.htm
CAFTA 2002 National Action Plan This is the national action plan for the Central American Free Trade Agreement for Costa Rica that was proposed in 2002.
The Search for Sustainable Markets: The Promise and Failures of Fair Trade by Julia Smith.
Click here for more Costa Rica reading resources
Nicaragua:
A Coffee Crisis' Devastating Domino Effect in Nicaragua by David Gonzalez (New York Times)
Cooperatives and change: From revolution and agrarian reform to specializated coffee exporters in northern Nicargua by Christopher Bacon
Fair-trade movement brews new hope for coffee growers by Bruce Finley (Denver Post)
Poverty and Environmental Degradation in the Nicaraguan Hillsides by Helle Munk Ravnborg
Starting at the Roots: USFT's youth brigade harvests hope in the Nicaraguan Northern Mountains
see more articles at: http://www.uvm.edu/~emendez/?Page=Publications.html
Mexico
Poverty Alleviation through Participation in Fair Trade Coffee Networks: The Case of CEPCO, Oaxaca, Mexico by Josefina Aranda and Carmen Morales
Does Fair Trade Coffee Have a Future in Mexico? The Impact of Migration in a Oaxaca Community by Jessa Lewis and David Runsten
Made in the Shade: Can Shade Coffee Help Stem Deforestation in Latin America? by Allen Blackman, Heidi ALbers, Beatriz Avalos Sartorio, and Lisa Crooks
Startegies for Survival: Migration and Fair Trade-Organic Coffee Production in Oaxaca, Mexico by Jessa M. Lewis
