date:Aug 25, 2015
been exploited by the West in various ways, because it's consumed in rich countries, and grown in poor ones, said Alexander Myers, a KU doctoral candidate in sociology.
Myers will present his study, Trading in Crisis: Coffee, Ecological Rift, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange, at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The paper examines how the shift to technified coffee for mass production and to meet greater demand hurt peasant farmers of those countries and