Coffee, farming families, and fair trade in Costa Rica: New markets, same old problems?

Latin American Research Review

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 193-208

  Sick, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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