High-End Coffee and Smallholding Growers in Guatemala
High-End Coffee and Smallholding Growers in Guatemala
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危地马拉的高端咖啡和小农种植者
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.2220836
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Bart Victor
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作者：
E. Fischer;Bart Victor
在过去的二十年里，危地马拉的咖啡生产经历了戏剧性的变化。北方消费者不断变化的口味推动了对生长在4500英尺以上的高质量严格硬豆咖啡的新需求。因此，危地马拉许多长期以来被视为咖啡代名词的大型低海拔种植园已经放弃了生产，转而种植橡胶、非洲棕榈树和其他作物。至少有5万名高地小农已经开始种植咖啡，以填补这一利基市场。本文以能力发展方法为基础，探讨危地马拉小农对更美好未来的渴望如何引导他们与这一新市场的接触。这些小生产者大多生活在非常简陋的环境中，资源和机会有限。然而，正如他们所描述的那样，在几乎没有机会的情况下，咖啡代表着一种机会，一种不完美的方式，可以让生活略有改善。
Coffee production in Guatemala has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last twenty years. Changing tastes among northern consumers have driven new demand for high-quality Strictly Hard Bean coffees that are grown above 4,500 feet. As a result, many of the large, lower-altitude plantations long synonymous with coffee in Guatemala have abandoned production, moving into rubber, African palm, and other crops. At least 50,000 mostly smallholding farmers in the highlands have begun growing coffee to fill this market niche. Building on a capabilities approach to development, this article examines how smallholding Guatemalan producers’ desires for a better future orient their engagement with this new market. Most of these small producers live in very modest circumstances with limited resources and opportunities. Yet, as they describe it, coffee represents an opportunity in a context of few opportunities, an imperfect means to a marginally better life.