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Javatrekker
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Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
By
Dean Cycon
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback / softback, 239 pages | | Other Information: | Illustrations (some col.), maps | | Published In: | United States, 04 January 2008 |
In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century - globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination - 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 - equal parts entrepreneur, activist, and mischievous explorer - has travelled extensively throughout the world's tropical coffeelands, and shows readers places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen. |
About the AuthorDean Cycon owns Dean's Beans, an all-organic, all-fair-trade, all-kosher coffee roaster in Orange, MA. He and his company lead the industry in commitment to true fair-trade principles. Projects funded through Dean's Beans include a revolving loan fund to dig wells in Ethiopia, a coffee roaster/cafe in Nicaragua owned and operated by a prosthetics clinic giving limbs and therapy to landmine victims, reforestation in Peru, and coffee de-pulping machines in Papua New Guinea. To learn more about Dean's Beans visit www.deansbeans.com. Table of ContentsPart 1 Miriamis Well Fermenting Change Part 2 Bridging the Gap Global Warning: Climate Change, Conflict and Culture Part 3 Lighting a Candle for Freedom (Guatemala 1993) Tracking the Death Train Coffee, Landmines, and Hope Part 4 Good Friends, The 300-Man March Epilogue Reviews"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"
| Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing Co | | ISBN: | 1933392703 |
| EAN: | 9781933392707 | | Dimensions: | 22.76 x 15.39 x 1.78 centimeters (0.40 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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