Gender equity in fairtrade-organic coffee producer organizations: Cases from Mesoamerica

Geoforum

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-103

  Lyon, Sarah ^a   Bezaury, Josefina Aranda ^b   Mutersbaugh, Tad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coffee; Commodity chains; Fairtrade organic; Gender; Guatemala; Latin America; Mexico; Value chains; Women

Indexed keywords

COFFEE; CROP PRODUCTION; GENDER ISSUE; GENDER RELATIONS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TRADE AGREEMENT; WOMENS ORGANIZATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; LATIN AMERICA; MESOAMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70749137343     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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