pt. 1. Context and analytical framework -- The international coffee crisis : a review of the issues / David Goodman -- Agroecological foundations for designing sustainable coffee agroecosystems / Stephen R. Gliessmann -- The roots of the coffee crisis / Seth Petchers and Shayna Harris -- pt. 2. Ecological and social dimensions of producers' responses -- Coffee-production strategies in a changing rural landscape : a case study in central Veracruz, Mexico / Laura Trujillo -- The benefits and sustainability of organic farming by peasant coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico / Maria Elena Martínez-Torres -- A grower typology approach to assessing the environmental impact of coffee farming in Veracruz, Mexico / Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti -- Confronting the coffee crisis : can fair trade, organic, and specialty coffees reduce the vulnerability of small-scale farmers in northern Nicaragua? / Christopher M. Bacon -- Coffee agroforestry in the aftermath of modernization : diversified production and livelihood strategies in post-reform Nicaragua / Silke Mason Westphal -- Farmers' livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in a coffee landscape of El Salvador / V. Ernesto Méndez -- pt. 3. Alternative south-north networks and markets -- Social dimensions of organic coffee production in Mexico : lessons for ecolabeling initiatives / David B. Bray, José Luis Plaza Sanchez, and Ellen Contreras Murphy -- Serve and certify : paradoxes of service work in organic coffee certification / Tad Mutersbaugh -- Organic and social certifications : recent developments from the global regulators / Sasha Courville -- From differentiated coffee markets toward alternative trade and knowledge networks / Roberta Jaffe and Christopher M. Bacon -- Cultivating sustainable coffee : persistent paradoxes / Christopher M. Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez, and Jonathan A. Fox.