Delivering the Goods: Fair Trade, Solidarity, and the Moral Economy of the Coffee Contract in Nicaragua
Delivering the Goods: Fair Trade, Solidarity, and the Moral Economy of the Coffee Contract in Nicaragua
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交付货物：尼加拉瓜咖啡合同的公平贸易、团结和道德经济
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2013
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Bradley R. Wilson
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Bradley R. Wilson
本文探讨了一个看似简单的问题：为什么农民参与公平贸易咖啡网络？宣传公平贸易的运动往往表明，由于价格溢价和社会发展利益，农民参与的动机是积极的。然而，越来越多的文献记载了咖啡种植社区的发展成果，表明农民并没有像在全球北方那样获得公平贸易的好处。我借鉴了一个社区的民族志研究，这是尼加拉瓜公平贸易的最早供应商之一。结合参与者的观察，政治经济学分析，和口述历史访谈，我探讨了在2005年的网络外的咖啡销售的冲突，威胁到破坏供应的高品质咖啡的生产者组织的增长至关重要，并通过扩展的公平贸易网络。冲突及其后果揭示了尼加拉瓜农民和生产者组织之间基于地方的道德经济纠葛。
This paper explores a deceptively simple question: why do peasant farmers participate in Fair Trade coffee networks? Campaigns touting Fair Trade often suggest that farmers are incentivized to participate due to price premiums and social development benefits. However, a growing literature documenting development outcomes in coffee farming communities suggests that farmers do not reap the benefits of Fair Trade in the way they are presented in the global North. I draw upon ethnographic research in a community that is one the earliest suppliers of Fair Trade in Nicaragua. Combining participant observation, political economic analysis, and oral history interviews, I explore a conflict over out-of-network coffee sales in 2005 that threatened to undermine supplies of high quality coffee critical to the growth of the producer organization and by extension the Fair Trade network. The conflict and its aftermath reveal place-based moral economic entanglements between farmers and producer organizations in Nicaragua...