Coffee Is Not Forever : A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust Hardback
by Stuart McCook
Part of the Series in Ecology and History series
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The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations.
In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust.
He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world's coffee-producing zones.
In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges-especially climate change-that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:02/10/2019
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- ISBN:9780821423868
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:02/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780821423868
