Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
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应对咖啡危机：对墨西哥、危地马拉和洪都拉斯农民适应情况的试点研究
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2006
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Edwin Josue Castellanos
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H. Eakin;C. Tucker;Edwin Josue Castellanos
本文探讨了市场冲击和制度变革对墨西哥、危地马拉和洪都拉斯小农生计的影响，以及适应挑战。自1989年《国际咖啡协定》（International coffee Agreement）解体以来，咖啡价格迅速下跌，对咖啡产区产生了广泛而深远的影响。该项目的三个案例研究收集的数据证实了影响的严重性，特别是在墨西哥和危地马拉社区。它们还说明了农民与公共机构之间的历史关系在定义农民对风险的感知、他们对所面临的变化性质的认识以及他们对当前和未来不确定性反应的灵活性方面的重要性。该项目的研究结果表明，农民、服务提供者和信息来源之间的地方网络的存在和发展可能对促进适应至关重要，特别是在经济自由化和农业全球化的背景下。
This article explores the impacts of market shocks and institutional change on smallholder livelihoods, and the challenge of adaptation in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The rapid decline in coffee prices since the dissolution of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 has had widespread and profound impacts across coffee-producing regions. The data collected in the three case studies of this project confirm the severity of the impact, particularly in the Mexican and Guatemalan communities. They also illustrate the importance of the historical relationship between farmers and public institutions in defining farmers’ perception of risk, their awareness of the nature of the changes they face, and thus the flexibility of their responses to present and future uncertainty. The project’s findings indicate that the existence and development of local networks among farmers, service providers and information sources may be critical for facilitating adaptation, particularly in the context of economic liberalization and globalized agriculture.