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 Central America. Food, Energy and Environment Series MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Jaffe, R. and Bacon, C.M. (2008) “From Differentiated Coffee Markets Towards Alternative Trade and Knowledge Networks” 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 Central 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.

Bacon, C.M. “A Spot of Coffee in Crisis: Nicaraguan Smallholder Cooperatives, Fair Trade Networks and Gendered Empowerment Processes.” Latin American Perspectives.

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.

Bacon, C.M V. Ernesto Méndez M.E. Flores Gómez, D. Stuart, S. R. Díaz F. (in review). The state of smallholder livelihoods in Nicaragua: A participatory evaluation using the Millennium Development Goals to assess sustainable coffee certifications.

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. http://www.leisa.info/index.php?url=magazinedetails.tpl&p[readOnly]=0&p[_id]=87898

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

Gliessman, S. R., C. Bacon, R. Cohen, C. Guadarrama-Zugasti, L. Trujillo & V. E. Méndez (2004) Qu'est-ce que l'agroecologie? l' Ecologiste (French edition of the Ecologist) 5 (3):27-29.

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.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.

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. Domincan 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. 20(4):27-30.

Documentary Films

Bacon, C. (2002). Executive Producer for “In Our Hands: Sustainable Relationships in Specialty Coffee” Raindancer Video Productions: Santa Cruz, CA. (TRT: 25min) Active participation in the following documentary films

Macksoud, A. and Ankele, J. (2005). Executive Producer for “Birdsong and Coffee: A Wake-up Call.” Old Dog Documentaries: Woodstock, VT. (TRT: 55min)

Dunbar Productions. (2006). Colleen Crosby’s Last Brunch: The Relationships that lead to Lifetime Achievement Awards. Dunbar Productions: Santa Cruz, CA (TRT: 15min)