Geographic expansion and intensification of coffee-growing in Costa Rica during the Green Revolution (1950-89): Drivers and outcomes

Andrea Montero, Marc Badia-Miró and Enric Tello
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Andrea Montero: Universidad de Costa Rica
Marc Badia-Miró: Universitat de Barcelona
Enric Tello: Universitat de Barcelona

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2021, issue 83, 129-164

Abstract: This article presents fresh improved aggregated data on coffee-growing regional specialization in Costa Rica between the 1950s to the 1980s and discusses the determinants of the expansion of that coffee cropping frontier with a model that combines environmental and geo-economic drivers. The model performs a multiregression analysis that includes agroclimatic, land use, demographic, and market access variables to explain the geographical patterns of expansion and intensification of coffee-growing areas during the deployment of the Green Revolution. The results allow us to characterize the locations and understand the main drivers behind coffee regional specialization. The results confirm that the locations of coffee-growing expansion were conditioned by a dynamic interaction among first and second-nature factors whose importance changed over time within a complex social and agro-ecological fabric that allowed, to some extent, the endurance of functional shaded management in small-scale coffee plantations.

Keywords: coffee-growing; Green Revolution; first and secondnature determinants; Costa Rica (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 N56 N57 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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