Governance and Images : Representations of Certified Southern Producers in High-Quality Design Markets

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Culture, exchange and global political ecology : What role for anthropologists

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Eco-imperialism and environmental justice

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Subterranean struggles : New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America [Book review]

Book review. Reviewed work: Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. - Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014, pp. xiii + 343, $34.95; £28.99, pb.Non peer reviewe

Representations of tropical forests and tropical forest-dwellers in travel accounts of National Geographic

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Book review

Book review. Reviewed work: Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown / Javier Auyero and De´bora Alejandra Swistun. - Oxford, 2009.Peer reviewe

Socially differentiated urban flood governance in Mexico : Ambiguous negotiations and fragmented contestations

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Review: Living with oil : Promises, peaks and declines on Mexico's Gulf Coast (L. Breglia)

Book review. Reviewed work: Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico's Gulf Coast / Lisa Breglia. - Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013 (pp. x + 313).Non peer reviewe

Microcredit as a socio-political institution in South Africa : The complexity of rules, logic and power relations

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Impacts of fair trade certification on coffee farmers, cooperatives, and laborers in Nicaragua

This paper analyzes the possibilities and challenges of Fair Trade certification as a movement seeking to improve the well-being of small-scale coffee growers and coffee laborers in the global South. Six months of fieldwork was conducted in 2005–2006 to study the roles of a wide range of farmers, laborers, cooperative administrators, and export companies in Fair Trade coffee production and trade in Nicaragua. The results of our evaluation of the ability of Fair Trade to meet its objectives indicate that Fair Trade’s opportunities to provide a significant price premium for participating farmers largely depend on world coffee prices in mainstream markets. While Fair Trade has promoted premiums for social development for participating producers and strengthened the institutional capacities of the cooperatives involved, its ability to enhance significantly the working conditions of hired coffee laborers remains limited