Article ID: CBB001421781

On Green Revolutions and Golden Beans: Memories and Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Co-op Founders (2014)

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During the second half of the twentieth century Costa Rica experienced two related and profound changes in its historically dominant coffee sector: the rise and consolidation of a producer co-op movement with its own processing and marketing capacity in the 1960s, followed in the 1970s by new cultivation techniques, especially replanting with caturra (dwarf variety) bushes. This study offers a close reading of the lived experience of these processes as well as the construction of memories and meanings. It also highlights how profoundly radical some of the unanticipated consequences of those changes have been for these same protagonists by engaging various forms of expression---metaphors, ironies, critiques, jokes---employed by the founding generation of the co-ops to recount and make sense of their own history.

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Authors & Contributors
Alpers, Edward A.
Kull, Christian A.
Alfonso-Goldfarb, Ana Maria
Berenji, Janos
Carney, Judith
Charnley, Berris
Journals
Environment and History
Agricultural History
Antiquity
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Economic Botany
Food, Culture and Society
Publishers
University of Chicago
Universidade de Lisboa
Ashgate
Louisiana State University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Agriculture
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Plants
Coffee and coffee industry
Science and economics
Domestication
People
Knight, Thomas Andrew
Schomburgk, Robert Hermann
Borlaug, Norman Ernest
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Brazil
São Paulo (Brazil)
Saint Domingue (Caribbean)
Costa Rica
Institutions
United States. Patent Office
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