Abstract
By examining narratives and practices of sustainability in the production of organic coffee by indigenous, small coffee growers, a model emerges that extends the ethics of care across multiple geographical scales, and into rethinking human-nature relationships. This paper focuses on how indigenous organic coffee growers engage social, economic, and environmentally sustainable practices supported by a local producers’ association, and an international seal of organic production. A sense of justice and care imbued in producers’ commitment to clean production waves beyond their own bodies, households, communities, and global consumers. Despite volatile market prices, conflicting institutional and governmental approaches to and narratives about organic production, the costs of organic certification and crucial concerns as producers, these indigenous organic growers remain committed to their own meanings of being organic producers, producing life.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Economic, Social, and Cultural Context
KEYWORDS
Indigenous Producers, Organic Production, Ethics of Care, Reciprocity, Sustainability
