Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure Farmer Livelihoods? The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade Cooperatives

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  2008

• Venue

  Globalizations

• Publication date

  2008-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/14747730802057688
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