Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …

selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial equilibrium modeling approach (SMART model and …

This paper explores the marketing strategies of Cafédirect, a company that pays a guaranteed price for coffee to Latin … commodity fetishism, the concern being to reveal the (unequal) social relations underlying conventional coffee production and to … present the consumer with the opportunity to transform such relations through the purchase of fairly traded coffee. In case …