Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers

by María Elena Martínez-Torres

Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding 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 Mexico and in the north.

Maria Elena Martinez-Torres explains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802477
• ISBN13: 9780896802476
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.5"