Coffee Resources

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Confronting the Coffee Crisis - Bacon	Can Fair Trade, organic, and specialty coffees reduce small-scale farmer vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, PAR Projects	download
Traditional Shade, Rural Livelihoods and Conservation in Small Coffee Farms and Cooperatives of Western El Salvador	Dissertation of Ernesto Mendez, 2004	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, PAR Projects	download
Prices Paid to Growers	Comparison of Fair Trade vs NYSE price of Coffee, 1989 to 2010	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, Trade Innovations	download
The Search for Sustainable Markets	The Promise and Failures of Fair Trade	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, Trade Innovations	download
Differentiated Coffee Markets to Alternative Trade - Roberta Jaffe and Chris Bacon	What if we take certification as a starting point instead of a finish line? Is it possible to maintain the “alterity” within these certified markets as they rush to mainstream? What if, instead of comparing these differentiated coffee market segments to the corporate controlled conventional coffee markets, we look to the many examples of more local and alternative food networks?	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, PAR Projects	download
Building Grower / Consumer Alliances for Confronting the Coffee Crisis By Roberta Jaffe, Devon Sampson, and Annie Shattuck	In 2001, world coffee prices tumbled to all-time lows, devastating coffee-dependent farm families and their communities, in what became known as the global “coffee crisis.” Out of necessity, many farm families left their communities to find wage labor, while others cut down their coffee plants and shade trees in favor of cattle pasture. The integrity of coffee producing communities in México and Central America was strained by emigration, biodiversity was threatened by deforestation, and denuded and trampled hillsides started to wash away in the tropical rains.	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, PAR Projects	download
AgroEco® Coffee Order Form	The CAN AgroEco^® Coffee Order Form. Buy coffee and support the Nicaraguan Youth Scholarship Fund.	Action Research Initiatives, Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, Events, Partner Organization Projects, Trade Innovations	download
Food Security in Las Segovias: Year 1 Report	Community Agroecology Network (CAN) and our partners PRODECOOP and CII-ASDENIC are collaborating on three-year project with the goal to enhance food security and build resilient food and agricultural systems that enable 740 households (approximately 4,440 people) in the Segovias region of northern Nicaragua to reduce and eventually eliminate los meses de las vacas flacas and more successfully resist the negative impacts to food security from climate change in the future.	About CAN, Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, PAR Projects, Partner Organization Projects	download
Fall 2010 Newsletter PDF	Fall 2010 Newsletter	About CAN, Action Education, Action Research Initiatives, Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, Events, Field Study Resources, PAR Projects, Partner Organization Projects, Trade Innovations	download
AgroEco® Brochure	Brochure that describes CAN's AgroEco^® coffee. Learn about sustainable coffee production.	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, Trade Innovations	download
Santa Cruz Farmers Market Map of Vendors	Look for CAN at space #52	Coffee	download
Prioritizing Food Security and Livelihoods in Climate Change Mitigation Mechanisms	Andrew Davis and V. Ernesto Mendez. "Prioritizing food security and livelihoods in climate change mitigation mechanisms: Experiences and opportunities in smallholder coffee agroforestry forest communities and REDD+". Policy brief based on an academic paper and book chapter looking at the carbon mitigation potential of smallholder coffee agroforestry.	Agroecology and Food Systems, Coffee, PAR Projects, Partner Organization Projects	download