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- Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I heartily acknowle
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- Page 9 and 10: Preface La sabiduria y la constante
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- Page 15 and 16: Introduction: The Fieldwork I first
- Page 17 and 18: I had visited Matagalpa in 2000, wh
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- Page 21 and 22: Figure 1. Map of Nicaragua showing
- Page 23 and 24: Nevertheless, San Juan was the idea
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- Page 31 and 32: In my experience assisting small-sc
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- Page 39 and 40: Don Amado raised his family of six
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- Page 45 and 46: Chapter 1 Regional Identity Formati
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- Page 55 and 56: The Pueblos de Indios stood in the
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- Page 81 and 82: The high ideals of the Sandinista r
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areas. The Contras were former Guar
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effort. As Don Ramón put it, “la
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The project was called Huertos Fami
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who is president of the Carlos Fons
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Part Two Development: International
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I consider how organic coffee fits
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Small-Scale Agrarian Communities, D
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Although the ideological justificat
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(Richards 1985; Dennis 1987). Latin
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dominated much of Third World expor
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depleting natural resources or degr
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communities experience tensions and
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I sat in and helped facilitate seve
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urning. When the wind was calm, our
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Marvin was involved with a rural en
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Hurricane Mitch and the Internation
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Conclusion Because the plant and th
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The Farmers of Las Grietas Upon mee
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stonemason and carpenter for local
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for work in the past five years? If
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for Danilo, but not as closely as w
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The lives of these three families h
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Adrian was able to invest in a bene
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employee dormitories. The large far
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Wiwilí. Danilo had to show proof o
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in Nicaragua, and I encountered it
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from the training in production tec
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farmers who receive pre-harvest fin
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award committee, in 2003 and 2004.
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time farm staff. Danilo, on the oth
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were able to accumulate large tract
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natural resources, to conserve, pro
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The growers share a collective resp
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Danilo, Maragojipe does not thrive
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In August and September, farmers fo
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gallon bucket of coffee cherries, a
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section with smaller Catuaí plants
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The beans turn from a pale green to
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Rainforest Alliance and the Audubon
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Figure 5. Depulping coffee with mot
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engañar facilmente (They [the brok
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farmers are not adept at these proc
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The International Cup of Excellence
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Organic Farming Responsibilities In
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The Nicaraguan Rural Development In
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unsuccessfully combated, can only b
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Organic Fertilizers Many coffee far
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community. This means, for example,
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application. Most farmers had not e
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They returned that evening empty-ha
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Danilo’s fields as we talked with
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converting to organic production. H
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in their cooperative and communitie
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organizational strategies present m
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Part Three Outcomes: Cooperative Or
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organizational models that have bee
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coffee farmer, and José Manuel Mor
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El estado cuenta con nosotros porqu
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company” (la empresa) when talkin
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their estimated yield should cover
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firm, CISA/AGRO. Corcasan has its o
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earning higher prices for their far
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funding package. Corcasan brought i
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The credit model from banks and mic
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green coffee that weighed 412 quint
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This is not an exact measurement, b
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only for a few select farmers. That
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Tito is Heberto’s oldest son. He
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Towards the end of my fieldwork the
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Danilo received several of the bene
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prohibited on this farm).” Some f
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One afternoon in August 2006, near
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single gas station in San Juan. Bro
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camp, was only 30 kilometers away.
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emote parts of the community to fin
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apparently the more diligent farmer
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Chapter 8 Community-Based Campesino
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campesinos y del ecosistema. No hay
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Nosotros en la Procaoc vendemos apa
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have the capacity to supply the dem
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instructor, actually instructs farm
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transparencia (There’s problems w
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waste my time with the smaller farm
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Javier Vanegas, accountant for the
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conversation provided a foundation
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carpenter; and Jorge, the assistant
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“Nosotros [Guillermo Hernández]
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en el servicio. (They gave it to me
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The cooperative model for export ag
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day went on. The music changed to l
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would ask me about my research and
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familiar with the community of Guan
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houses and additional farmland, but
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statement was in reference to Corca
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colonial history in Chapter 1), the
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Conclusion Regional Segovian identi
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production and marketing of organic
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economic development programs. In t
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capacity of their fellow farmers. T
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encountered in trying to conserve r
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Benjamin, Medea 1987 Don’t Be Afr
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Enríquez, Laura J. 1991 Harvesting
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Guido, Clemente 1989 Los Conservado
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MAGFOR 2004 Estrategia para la reco
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Redford, Kent H. and Allyn. M. Stea
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Turner, Terence 1991 Representing,
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