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Culture and Agriculture Prelim: “Can a Plantation Be Fair? Paradoxes and Possibilities in Darjeeling Fair Trade Tea Certification” Sarah Besky Culture and Agriculture Prelim: “Can a Plantation be Fair? Paradoxes and Possibilities in Darjeeling Fair Trade Tea Certification” Bacon, Christopher 2005 Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua? World Development. 33(3): 497-511. Bain, Carmen, B. James Deaton, and Lawrence Busch 2005 Reshaping the Agri-food System: The Role of Standards, Standard Markers and Third-Party Certifiers. In Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation. Vaughan Higgins and Geoffrey. Lawrence, eds. Pp 71-83. London and New York: Routledge. Bakker, Karen 2005 Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 95(3): 542-565. 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