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Variance in Approach Toward a ‘Sustainable’ Coffee Industry in Costa Rica
Melissa Vogt
2019
Dr. Melissa Vogt considers the influence of Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade in coffee farming communities of Costa Rica from 2009-2019. Sustainability certifications schemes are working amongst a range of sustainability efforts, unique by their intra market location. The intentions of each certification scheme must be clarified prior to evaluation and their influence considered amongst contextually specific historic and contemporary considerations, and alongside the range of sustainability efforts.
The advantages and disadvantages, opportunities for improvement and how alternative mechanisms might improve upon or complement sustainability certification schemes are explained. An epilogue considers how prioritisation of coffee as a cash crop may align with sustainability. The influence on biodiversity, community health and income, and the possible implication of reduced coffee crop density for consumers, the market and farming landscapes is considered. How sustainability standards might better encourage more ambitious sustainability in farming landscapes is for future consideration.
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Keywords
- Biodiversity
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Coffee farming landscapes
- Colonial and contemporary history
- Costa Rica
- Development Studies
- Environment
- Ethical issues & debates
- Fairtrade
- History
- Humanities
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Mathematics & science
- poverty reduction
- Rainforest Alliance
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Regulatory approaches
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- sustainability
- Sustainability certification schemes
- sustainability standards
- The environment
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFV Ethical issues and debates
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
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DOI: 10.5334/bceweb: http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bce/
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