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In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century n globalization, immigration, womenis rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination n are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author Dean Cycon brings readers face-to-face with the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible. Second only to oil in terms of its value, the coffee trade is complex with several levels of middlemen removing the 28 million growers in fifty distant countries far from you and your morning cup. And, according to Cycon, 99 percent of the people involved in the coffee economy have never been to a coffee village. They let advertising and images from the major coffee companies create their worldview. Cycon changes that in this compelling book, taking the reader on a tour of ten countries in nine chapters through his passionate eye and unique perspective. Cycon, who is himself an amalgam n equal parts entrepreneur, activist, and mischievous explorer n has travelled extensively throughout the worldis tropical coffeelands, and shows readers places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen
"Coffee is more than just a drink. It is about politics, survival, the earth and the lives of indigenous peoples. Dean Cycon has been involved with indigenous rights, in coffee and in the larger sphere, for the twenty-seven years I have known him. He has a rich knowledge of the people and places of coffee, and knows how to tell our stories in a sensitive, insightful and often humorous way. Javatrekker is a great book for anyone who wants to know what is really going on in their morning cup."--Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Laureate and author of "I, Rigoberta Menchu and Crossing Borders"
| Acknowledgments | p. vi |
| Prologue: The Inner Worlds of Coffee | p. ix |
| Africa | |
| Miriam's Well, the Emperor's Bed, and Kaldi's Goats (Ethiopia, 2002) | p. 3 |
| Fermenting Change, but Don't Cross the Big Man (Kenya, 2005) | p. 33 |
| South America | |
| Bridging the Gap (Peru, 2003) | p. 67 |
| Global Warning: Climate Change, Conflict, and Culture (Colombia, 2007) | p. 86 |
| Central America | |
| The Flickering Candle of Freedom (Guatemala, 1993) | p. 111 |
| Tracking the Death Train (Mexico/El Salvador, 2005) | p. 137 |
| Coffee, Land Mines, and Hope (Nicaragua, 2001) | p. 165 |
| Asia | |
| Good Friends, Cold Beer...and a Water Buffalo (Sumatra, 2003) | p. 185 |
| The Three-Hundred-Man March (Papua New Guinea, 2004) | p. 207 |
| Epilogue | p. 237 |
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ISBN: 9781933392707
ISBN-10: 1933392703
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 300
Published: 1st October 2007
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.404
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