A Place Unbecoming

The Coffee Farm of Northern Latin America

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ID4487191
AutoresRobert A Rice (0000-0002-0705-9422, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume89
Fascículo4
Páginas554-579
Data de publicação1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.1999.tb00234.x
PMID20662186
OpenAlexW1973701617
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas23

This article examines recent transformations of the coffee landscape of northern Latin America through the optic of "place as process." As coffee became the most important regional export crop, its "place" evolved. Coffee lands in northern Latin America now embrace 3.1 million hectares, often contiguous across international borders. Like many agricultural systems, coffee has succumbed to intensification, a process termed "technification" in the Latin American setting. The result is a landscape mosaic in which a traditional agro‐forest coffee system coexists with coffee lands transformed by modernization. The institutional forces behind this process, as well as some of its social and ecological consequences, are discussed.KeywordsbiodiversitycoffeelandscapeLatin Americaplaceshade Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert A. RiceDr. Rice is a geographer at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. 20008

Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Biology · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Latin Americans · Modernization theory · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy