Principal Collaborators:Dr. Edwin Castellanos, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Dr. Catherine Tucker, University of Florida Dr. Rafael Díaz, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Dr. Juan Barrera Gaytan, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México Dr. Helda Morales, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México |
Adaptation to Multiple Stressors in Mesoamerican Coffee Sector
Our work in coffee has been pursued in the context of a series of research collaborations with colleagues working in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras, coordinated by Dr. Edwin Castellanos of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. In broad terms, the various research initiatives undertaken have set out to understand the diversity of stressors to which coffee farmers in Mesoamerica have been subjected to over the last several decades, farmers’ risk perceptions, the constraints and opportunities farmers face in developing response strategies, and the implications of social organization, coffee certification, and specific production practices for farmers’ resilience.
Projects:Effective Adaptation Strategies and Risk Reduction towards Economic and Climatic Shocks: Lessons from the Coffee Crisis in Mesoamerica.
Funding source: Inter-American Institute for Global Change, Collaborative Research Network. Coffee Farmers’ Responses to the Impact of Hurricane Stan in Chiapas, Mexico: An Analysis of Social-Ecological Resilience. Other participating institutions: Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Mexico; El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico. Funding source: UC-MEXUS Collaborative Research Grant. Adapting to market shocks and climatic variability in Meso-America: The Coffee Crisis in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Funding Source: Inter-American Institute for Global Change. |
Publications:
Castellanos, Edwin; Tucker, Catherine; Eakin, H; Morales, Helda; Barrera, Juan F.; and Díaz, Rafael. 2013. Assessing the adaptation strategies of farmers facing multiple stressors: Lessons from the coffee and global changes project in Mesoamerica. Environmental Science and Policy, 26, 19-28.
Eakin, H., Tucker, C., Castellanos, E., Diaz-Porras, R., Barrera, J. F., & Morales, H. 2014. Adaptation in a multi-stressor environment: perceptions and responses to climatic and economic risks by coffee growers in Mesoamerica. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16(1), 123-139.
Davis, J. and Eakin, H. 2013. Chiapas' delayed entry into the international labour market: a story of peasant isolation, exploitation and coercion. Migration and Development, 2(1), 132-149.
Eakin, H., Morales, H., Castellanos, E., Cruz-Bello, G. M., & Barrera, J. F. 2013. Coffee, Disasters and Social-ecological Resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. In S. Boulter, J. Palutikof, D. J. Karoly & D. Guitart (Eds.), Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change (pp. 174-180). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Eakin, H.; Benessaiah, K.; Barrera, J. F.; Cruz-Bello, G. M.; and Morales, H. 2010. Livelihoods and landscapes at the threshold of change: disaster and resilience in a Chiapas coffee community. Regional Environmental Change, 12 (3), 475-488.
Cruz-Bello, G. M.; Eakin, H.; Morales, H.; and Barrera, J. F. 2011. Linking multi-temporal analysis and community consultation to evaluate the response to the impact of Hurricane Stan in coffee areas of Chiapas, Mexico Natural Hazards, 58, 103-116.
Frank, E.; Eakin, H. and Lopez-Carr, D. 2011. Social identity, perception and motivation in adaptation to climate risk in the coffee sector of Chiapas, Mexico. Global Environmental Change, 21, 66-76.
Eakin, H.; Winkels, A.; and Sendzimir, J. 2009. Nested vulnerability: Exploring cross-scale linkages and vulnerability teleconnections in Mexican and Vietnamese coffee systems. Environmental Science and Policy 12 (4), 398-412.
Schroth, G.; Laderach, P.; Dempewolf, J.; Philpott, S.; Haggar, J.; Eakin, H.; Castillejos, T.; Garcia Moreno, J.; Soto Pinto, L.; Hernandez, R.; Fitzinger, A.; Ramírez-Vllegas, J. 2009. Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for coffee communities and ecosystems in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14 (7), 605-625.
Díaz, R.; Eakin, H.; Castellanos, E. and Jiménez, G. 2009. Condiciones para la adaptación de los pequeños productores de café ante presiones económicos mediante procesos de upgrading en la cadena productiva. Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica 10, 61-72.
Hausermann, H. and Eakin, H. 2008. Producing ‘viable’ landscapes and livelihoods in Central Veracruz, Mexico: Institutional and producer responses to the coffee commodity crisis. Journal of Latin American Geography 7 (1), 109-131.
Eakin, H.; Tucker, C.; and Castellanos, E. 2006. Responding to the coffee crisis: A pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The Geographical Journal 172, 156-171.
Eakin, H., Tucker, C., Castellanos, E., Diaz-Porras, R., Barrera, J. F., & Morales, H. 2014. Adaptation in a multi-stressor environment: perceptions and responses to climatic and economic risks by coffee growers in Mesoamerica. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16(1), 123-139.
Davis, J. and Eakin, H. 2013. Chiapas' delayed entry into the international labour market: a story of peasant isolation, exploitation and coercion. Migration and Development, 2(1), 132-149.
Eakin, H., Morales, H., Castellanos, E., Cruz-Bello, G. M., & Barrera, J. F. 2013. Coffee, Disasters and Social-ecological Resilience in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. In S. Boulter, J. Palutikof, D. J. Karoly & D. Guitart (Eds.), Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change (pp. 174-180). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Eakin, H.; Benessaiah, K.; Barrera, J. F.; Cruz-Bello, G. M.; and Morales, H. 2010. Livelihoods and landscapes at the threshold of change: disaster and resilience in a Chiapas coffee community. Regional Environmental Change, 12 (3), 475-488.
Cruz-Bello, G. M.; Eakin, H.; Morales, H.; and Barrera, J. F. 2011. Linking multi-temporal analysis and community consultation to evaluate the response to the impact of Hurricane Stan in coffee areas of Chiapas, Mexico Natural Hazards, 58, 103-116.
Frank, E.; Eakin, H. and Lopez-Carr, D. 2011. Social identity, perception and motivation in adaptation to climate risk in the coffee sector of Chiapas, Mexico. Global Environmental Change, 21, 66-76.
Eakin, H.; Winkels, A.; and Sendzimir, J. 2009. Nested vulnerability: Exploring cross-scale linkages and vulnerability teleconnections in Mexican and Vietnamese coffee systems. Environmental Science and Policy 12 (4), 398-412.
Schroth, G.; Laderach, P.; Dempewolf, J.; Philpott, S.; Haggar, J.; Eakin, H.; Castillejos, T.; Garcia Moreno, J.; Soto Pinto, L.; Hernandez, R.; Fitzinger, A.; Ramírez-Vllegas, J. 2009. Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for coffee communities and ecosystems in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14 (7), 605-625.
Díaz, R.; Eakin, H.; Castellanos, E. and Jiménez, G. 2009. Condiciones para la adaptación de los pequeños productores de café ante presiones económicos mediante procesos de upgrading en la cadena productiva. Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica 10, 61-72.
Hausermann, H. and Eakin, H. 2008. Producing ‘viable’ landscapes and livelihoods in Central Veracruz, Mexico: Institutional and producer responses to the coffee commodity crisis. Journal of Latin American Geography 7 (1), 109-131.
Eakin, H.; Tucker, C.; and Castellanos, E. 2006. Responding to the coffee crisis: A pilot study of farmers’ adaptations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The Geographical Journal 172, 156-171.