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  title info:
    title: Coffee Rust (Hemileia vastatrix) Effects on the Food Security and Livelihoods of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Guatemala's Boca Costa Region
  name:
    name part: Bielecki, Christopher D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wingenbach, Gary J.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop a framework to understand how coping mechanisms and livelihood diversification strategies were used to mitigate the coffee leaf rust's (CLR) effects on the food security and livelihoods of Guatemalan smallholder coffee farmers. This research used a qualitative instrumental case study methodology to develop a grounded theory based on the rich description and analysis of how one Guatemalan smallholder coffee cooperative was affected by the 2012-2013 CLR epidemic. The cooperative members perceived the CLR epidemic as one crisis of many they faced in their lives. The CLR epidemic brought significant changes to the members' livelihoods strategy and increased food insecurity. Members reported production declines of 50 to 90 percent. Members chose to forgo organic production, borrow money, seek off-farm employment, diversify into food crops, and make major investments into renewing coffee fields infected with the CLR. The cooperative members reported ameliorating the effects of food insecurity by eating less food, skipping meals, eating less desirable foods, generating income from off-farm employment to purchase food, and borrowing money to purchase food. Despite continual crises, and the threat of another CLR outbreak, the cooperative remained committed to producing high quality Arabica coffee. Members perceived using non-productive land to grow food crops as beneficial to improve food security. Diversifying coffee fields to produce other cash crops was not perceived as an advantageous strategy to strengthen food security or livelihoods. Despite a history of assistance from external organizations before, during, and after, the CLR epidemic, members' livelihoods remained vulnerable. In light of the damaging effects that the CLR had on incomes, livelihoods, and food security, the cooperative's main objective remained exporting high quality Arabica coffee. The smallholder coffee producer vulnerability framework was developed during th…
  note: by Christopher D. Bielecki.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155186
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
  subject:
    topic: coffee
  subject:
    topic: coffee rust
  subject:
    topic: Guatemala
  subject:
    topic: food security
  subject:
    topic: livelihoods
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155186
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 160308
    record change date: 20170928112503.0
    record identifier: in00003610394
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng