Christopher Bacon

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Ph.D Christopher M Bacon

University of California at Berkeley

United States

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Christopher M. Bacon is an environmental social scientist and agroecologist. After completing an interdisciplinary degree in Environmental Studies, he has taught in the Latin American and Latinos Studies and Sociology Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As of September 1st 2008, he will be a S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup fellow affiliated with the Geography Department at UC Berkeley. He is an author and co-editor of Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America (MIT Press). His work focuses on trade, globalizations and sustainable community development in the Americas.
Christopher Bacon's publications

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Bacon 2005 Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua? World Development 33 (3) : 497-511.   English Journal  
Bacon, Mendez, Gliessman, Goodman, Fox 2007 Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America.   Food, Energy and Environment Series MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. English Book Link
Bacon, Mendez, Flores Gomez, Stuart, Diaz Flores 2008 Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure to Secure Farmer Livelihoods: The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade Cooperatives Globalizations 5 (2) : 259–274.   English Report Link
CLAC, Bacon 2006 Estudio de Costos y Propuesta de Precios para Sostener el Café, las Familias de Productores y Organizaciones Certificadas por Comercio Justo en América Latina y el Caribe   Assemblea de Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo: Domican Republic Spanish Report