We are grateful for the primary financial support for this work provided by the NSF grant BCS-1539795; and secondary support for part of this work was from the project Assessment of Diversification Strategies in Smallholder Coffee Systems (No AF 1507-086: No FDNC Engt 00063479) supported under the “Thought for Food” Initiative of the Agropolis Foundation (through the ”Investissements d’avenir“ programme with reference number ANR10-LABX-0001-01), Fondazione Cariplo and Daniel & Nina Carasso. Additional support for this work was from the Community Agroecology Network, the Santa Clara University’s Ignatian Institute for Jesuit Education’s Bannan Institute, Office of the Provost, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business, Center for Food Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Special thanks to research assistance from our Nicaragua partners: Raúl Diaz, Miseal Rivas, Rudy Espinosa, Jorge Iran Valasquez, Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez, Edrulfo Rodriguez, Erica Perez and numerous promotores and farmers including Marvin Espinosa and Maximino Guiterrez, and SCU undergraduate research assistants: Amanda Alipaz, Gabriella Ballardo, Lauren Cloward, Christopher Esparza, Kimy Grandi Soriano, Lindsay Tenes, Deja Thomas, Skyler Kriese, Martín Pérez, Vanessa Shin, and Claire Smoker.