Breaking the chains: Coffee, crisis, and farmworker struggle in Nicaragua

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2592-2609

  Wilson, Bradley R ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coffee crisis; Disarticulation; Dispossession; Farmworkers; Land reform; Nicaragua

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGROINDUSTRY; CAPITALISM; COFFEE; COMMODITY MARKET; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HUNGER; LAND REFORM;

NICARAGUA;

EID: 84888416763     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a46262     Document Type: Article

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