Is Fair Trade-Organic Coffee Sustainable in the Face of Migration? Evidence from a Oaxacan Community
Is Fair Trade-Organic Coffee Sustainable in the Face of Migration? Evidence from a Oaxacan Community
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面对移民，公平贸易有机咖啡是否可持续？
DOI：
10.1080/14747730802057738
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
D. Runsten
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作者：
Jessa Lewis;D. Runsten
摘要墨西哥咖啡种植者受到世界咖啡价格低，加上政府支持减少的负面影响。咖啡农的一个反应是增加了向美国的移民。一些合作社的另一个应对措施是通过认证其咖啡为环境可持续的、有机的和/或公平贸易来区分它们。本文以2004年在墨西哥瓦哈卡进行的一项案例研究为基础，探讨了低咖啡价格、移民和认证咖啡生产与贸易之间的联系。虽然移民的汇款有助于为咖啡生产提供资金，但移民的增加使该地区的人力资本流失，从而提高了劳动力的机会成本，从而提高了当地工资。从这个意义上说，部分为了提供咖啡运营资本而移民到美国的咖啡种植者通过提高成本来破坏咖啡生产。调查结果对公平贸易有机咖啡模式在移民机会面前的可持续性提出了质疑。本文摘要的中文版可在以下网址获得：www.informaworld.com/rglo
Abstract Mexican coffee growers have been negatively affected by low world coffee prices coupled with reduced government support. One response by coffee farmers has been increasing migration to the US. Another response by some cooperatives has been to differentiate their coffee by certifying it as environmentally sustainable, organic, and/or Fair Trade. This paper examines the links among low coffee prices, migration, and certified coffee production and trade, drawing on a 2004 case study conducted in Oaxaca, Mexico. Although remittances from migrants help finance coffee production, increased migration drains human capital out of the region, which raises the opportunity cost of labor and hence local wages. In this sense, coffee growers who migrate to the US, partly to provide operating capital for coffee, undermine coffee production by raising its costs. The findings raise doubts about the sustainability of the Fair Trade-organic coffee model in the face of migration opportunities. A Chinese version of this article's abstract is available online at: www.informaworld.com/rglo