Coffee and Land in Carazo, Nicaragua

Charlip, Julie A.

doi:10.1177/0094582x9902600105

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“…The post-1999 coffee crisis is only one of several periods of restructuring since farmers started cultivating coffee in Nicaragua during the early 1800s (Charlip, 1999;Rocha, 2003;Bacon, 2005b;Westphal, 2008;Dore, 2000). The coffee sector changed again after the Sandinista government lost national elections in 1990.…”

Section: Exporting For Survival: Coffee Cooperatives In Neoliberal Times 1989-2006mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Spot of Coffee in Crisis

Bacon

2010

Latin American Perspectives

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Comparison of responses to the post-1999 coffee crisis of three smallholder cooperatives participating in Fair Trade and conventional commodity networks suggests that agrarian-reform histories, gender relations, and bottom-up organizing practices influenced members’ sense of empowerment. Although most small-scale farmers suffered a decline in their sense of empowerment, the Fair Trade cooperatives found opportunity in the midst of the crisis. In addition to documenting North-South inequalities, this research reveals the uneven gender relationships within producer cooperatives, finds the lowest empowerment levels in a cooperative connected only with conventional coffee trade networks, and chronicles the achievements of a women’s Fair Trade cooperative.

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Section: Exporting For Survival: Coffee Cooperatives In Neoliberal Times 1989-2006mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Spot of Coffee in Crisis

Bacon

2010

Latin American Perspectives

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Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change

2021

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Coffee cultivation in Central America provides goods and services at local, national, and international levels. Climate change is likely to affect the magnitude and continuity of these benefits by reducing the land suitability for coffee cultivation. To quantify the impacts of climate change on land suitability, we use the Bayesian network model Agroecological Land Evaluation for Coffea arabica L. (ALECA) and estimate the land suitability for coffee production in 2000, 2050, and 2080 under three climate change scenarios based on relative concentration pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5. Results indicate that even under the less severe climate scenarios, over half of the current coffee area in Central America will experience a decline in its land suitability for coffee production, from excellent or good to moderate and marginal, and that the change will not happen in the more distant future of 2080, but by 2050. Under RCP 8.5, most coffee areas become of marginal and moderate suitability. The findings show that the continuity of coffee cultivation in a large portion of coffee areas in Central America is under threat and that farmers and policy-makers should develop adaptation portfolios for their farms and regions in a timely manner.

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Coffee and Land in Carazo, Nicaragua

Cited by 2 publications

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A Spot of Coffee in Crisis

A Spot of Coffee in Crisis

Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change

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