Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee.
Maria Elena Martinez-Torres is from Mexico and is research associate at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) in Berkeley, California. She is also director of Desarrollo Alternativo, AC, a nonprofit organization in Mexico that works toward alternative, sustainable development practices.
“I encourage you to indeed pour yourself a cup of Peace Coffee, sit
down, and read Maria Elena Martinez-Torres’s Organic Coffee. It is
a wonderful intellectual achievement that will improve your
enjoyment of each cup fairly of traded and organically produced
coffee.”
*Fair Grounds*
Highly capitalized plantation groves are so degraded by erosion …
that their productivity is plunging. Organic practices appear to be
seriously improving the soil, lending support to the notion that
the process of conversion to organic is a real investment in
building natural capital for the future.
*Organic Coffee*
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