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Good Coffee, Better World: by Margaret Balch-Gonzalez Annotated Bibliography Broad, Robin (Ed.). 2002. Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Provides a "road map" of different issues in globalization and illustrates the growing power of the citizen-led advocacy movement, or "global citizen backlash," for a fair world economy. Combats the common misconception that opponents of corporate globalization are a fringe movement of radicals and Luddites. Rejects the idea that the current world patterns of globalization and the hardships they cause are inevitable. Includes a brief history and description of the fair trade coffee certification process in "Can Advocacy-Led Certification Systems Transform Global Economic Practices?" by Michael E. Conroy. Excellent list of relevant Web sites. Daly, Herman. 1996. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press. Daly has written about his concept of a "steady state" economy - one that is not based on growth - since 1973. Forerunner of the "voluntary simplicity" movement. Dicum, Gregory, and Nina Luttinger. 1999. The Coffee Book: Anatomy of
an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop. The New Press, NY. Recommended
by Rodney North of Equal Exchange and Available through Equal Exchange. Ericson, Rose Benz. The Conscious Consumer: Promoting Economic Justice
Through Fair Trade. A 20-page comprehensive overview of the North
American Fair Trade movement. Available from the Fair Trade Resource Network
at http://www.fairtraderesource.org/cc.html Gladwell, Malcolm. 2000. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little Brown & Company. Interesting theory about how small societal changes can add up to sudden major changes; heartening for anyone who would like to see the world change for the better. Klein, Naomi. 1999. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.
New York: Picador. Good analysis of corporate brand-name marketing and its cultural and
economic effects on life in this country and the rest of the world. Describes
the growing brand-based/consumer activist movement, including a thought-provoking
analysis of its limitations and a call for active citizenship/participation
in the political process as well. Pendergrast, Mark. 1999. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and
How It Transformed Our World. New York: Basic Books. A comprehensive (520-page) history of the politics, economics, and social role of the world coffee trade, from sixth-century Abyssinia to Starbucks and fair trade certification. "Few coffee drinkers suspect that they are affecting American foreign
policy, the domestic policies of Latin-American and African countries,
and the habitat of migratory birds. Pendergrast shows how and why they
are. He has taken on a huge subject, but he organizes the facts skillfully
and puts personalities in the perspective of their times. This encyclopedic
volume is the entertaining result." The New Yorker Schumacher, E. F. 1973. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. London: Blond & Briggs. Classic blueprint for a small-scale, fair, sustainable world economy.
Web Resources Equal Exchange Coffee Exchange New Harvest Coffee Roasters Cafe Campesino Dean's Beans Peace Coffee Fair Trade Advocacy Organizations TransFair USA Global Exchange Global Exchange's coffee campaign: Coffee Kids Oxfam
Provides materials and trains facilitators for excellent, eye-opening
workshops on globalization; facilitates community organizing around fair
trade issues. Fair Trade Federation Fair Trade Resource Network
Cafe Unidos An information clearinghouse for sustainable coffee: A project of the
Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy at the University of
Victoria. Make Trade Fair International Federation for Alternative Trade Coffee Trade Associations Trade organization representing businesses involved in the high-quality
(specialty) coffee trade, including fair trade coffee. Coffee Quality Institute (sponsored by SCAA) National Coffee Association Coffee Science Source (sponsored by NCA) |
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