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Article: Responding to the coffee crisis: a pilot study of farmers' adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Introduction
The question of how agricultural systems can or cannot adapt to market fluctuations and economic change is a central focus of academic debate and public policy concern (McMichael 1994; Reilly 1995; Goodman and Watts 1997; Smithers and Smit 1997). Smallholder farmers have been singled out as one population that may be particularly vulnerable to market fluctuations and global economic change, based on the observation that the impacts of global economic volatility are often felt more severely among the world's peasant and smallholder farmers. Moreover, these farmers tend to have relatively few resources with which to cope (O'Brien and Leichenko 2000; ...