Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand

by Mark Pendergrast

Book Overview

"What does compassionate capitalism look like? Mark Pendergrast shows us in this enlightening story of tribal life, opium, missionaries, market trends, a Thai antiques dealer, a mining entrepreneur and coffee." Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal

The Akha hill tribe of Thailand has a long, tumultuous history. Politics, economics, violence, prejudice, and deforestation consistently worked against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771640472
• ISBN13: 9781771640473
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"