Javatrekker : dispatches from the world of fair trade coffee
Author and coffee entrepreneur Dean Cycon profiles the people around the world who keep the coffee industry running, traveling to the remote villages of Colombia, the rain forests of Ethiopia, top global trade offices, and beyond to reveal why the coffee trade is so successful
Print Book, English, ©2007
Chelsea Green Pub., White River Junction, Vt., ©2007
xvi, 239 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
9781933392707, 1933392703
153580280
Prologue: the inner worlds of coffee
Africa
Miriam's well, the emperor's bed, and Kaldi's goats (Ethiopia, 2002)
Fermenting change, but don't cross the big man (Kenya, 2005)
South America
Bridging the gap (Peru, 2003)
Global warning: climate change, conflict, and culture (Colombia, 2007)
Central America
The flickering candle of freedom (Guatemala, 1993)
Tracking the death train (Mexico/El Salvador, 2005)
Coffee, land mines, and hope (Nicaragua, 2001)
Asia
Good friends, cold beer ... and a water buffalo (Sumatra, 2003)
The three-hundred-man march (Papua New Guinea, 2004)
Epilogue