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Sociology Dept.
H. Gray, Chair
C. West, Grad Director
B. Crow, UG Educ Cmte Chr
College 8, 226
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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Christopher Bacon Home  Directory Christopher Bacon
| Courses Taught | |
Winter 2008: SOCY 168, Social Justice
Spring 2008: SOCY 167, Development and Underdevelopment
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| Research Focus | |
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Sustainability research, education and innovation; Agro-food systems; Environmental Education, Natural resource management; Fair trade and corporate social responsibility; Rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation and empowerment; Agroecology and natural resource management; Interdisciplinary research, Mentorship and participatory pedagogies; Field research methods, Project monitoring and evaluation; Intercultural organizing and social learning; Nicaragua, Latin America and the USA. |
| Selected Publications | |
Peer Reviewed Papers & Academic Books
Published
Bacon, C. (2005). Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic and Specialty Coffee Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua? World Development 33(3): 497-511.
Bacon, C.M., Méndez, V.E., Gliessman, S., Goodman, D., and J.A. Fox, (Eds.). (2008). Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. Food, Energy and Environment Series MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Bacon, C.M., V.E. Mendez and J.A. Fox (2008). "Persistent Paradoxes in Efforts to Cultivate Sustainable Coffee” in Bacon, C. M., Méndez, V.E., Gliessman, S., Goodman, D., and J.A. Fox, (Eds.). Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and C entral America. Food, Energy and Environment Series MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Forthcoming
Bacon, C.M. (forthcoming). “Definition of Fair Trade.” Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. Reinert, K. and Rajan, R. (Eds). Princeton University Press.
In Preparation
Bacon, C.M. “Finding hope in forgotten places: Constructing quality, cultivating fair trade coffee and the struggle to scale up without selling out” in Ecologies of Hope. Rajan, R and Dunkin, C. (Eds.) School for Advanced Research. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Book Reviews,Reports & Technical Publications
Bacon, C.M. 2007. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival by Daniel Jaffee (Book Review). Stanford Social Innovation Review. 5(4): 76-77.
Méndez, V.E. and Bacon, C. (2006). "Ecological Processes and Farmer livelihoods in shade coffee production." Invited article to LEISA (Magazine on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture). 22(4):22-24.
S.R. Gliessman, F.J. Rosado-May, C. Guadarrama-Zugasti, J. Jedlicka, A. Cohn, V.E. Mendez, R. Cohen, L. Trujillo, C Bacon, & R. Jaffe. 2007. "Agroecología: promoviendo una transición hacia la sostenibilidad." Ecosistemas: Revista Científica y Técnica de Ecología y Medio Ambiente, Año XVI Nº 1 / Enero – Abril.
Bacon, C., V. E. Méndez & M. Brown (2005). "Participatory action-research and support for community development and conservation: examples from shade coffee landscapes of El Salvador and Nicaragua." Research Brief # 6. (CASFS), University of California: Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A
Bacon, C.M. (2001). Knowing What You Grow: The Story of Nicaragua's Coffee Quality Improvement Project. Santa Cruz, CA. An Independent project evaluation for Thanksgiving Coffee Company. http://www.agroecology.org/Chris.html
In Spanish
Bacon, C.M. and Flores-Gomez, M-E. 2007. El Desarrollo Cooperativo en Nicaragua: Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias Augusto Cesar Sandino San Ramón, Matagalpa. Centro para La Economía Social Managua, Nicaragua.
CLAC (Bacon, C.M. and Flores-Gomez, M-E.). 2007. Estudio de Impacto del Sistema de Café de Comercio Justo en América Latina y el Caribe. Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo: Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
CLAC (Bacon, C.M.) (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. Dominican Republic: Assemblea de Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo.
Méndez, V.E. and Bacon, C. (2005). "Investigación-Acción para Fortalecer Medios de Vida y Conservación de Biodiversidad Arbórea en Cooperativas Cafetaleras de El Salvador y Nicaragua." LEISA (Revista de Agroecología). 20(4):27-30.
http://latinoamerica.leisa.info/index.php?url=magazine-details.tpl&p[_id]=73505
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