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Abstract: Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the worls. But is it working? This vivid study of indigenous coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. It explorers the changing politics of the international fair international fair trade, illuminating the complex dynamic of this alternative market and its relationshio to the global economy.

Abstract: The book presents series of interdisciplinary, empirically rich case studies showing how small-scale farmers manage ecosystems and organize collectively as they seek useful collaborations with international NGOs and coffee companies to create opportunities for themselves in the coffee market. The findings demonstrate the interconnections among farmer livelihoods, biodiversity, conservation, and changing coffee market.

Abstract: This book allows us to understand more clearly the history and content of the current debates about corporate-led economic globalization. But, more than that, it tells what we can do about it -what peolple are already doing about it.