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SBN Feature Article: February 1997
Feature Article: February 1997 Rainforest Alliance Awards Seal Of Approval To El Jute NEW YORK -- A Guatemalan coffee farm has earned the first ECO-O.K. seal of approval from the Rainforest ... a trading company in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and distributed to European Roasterie Inc., a specialty coffee roaster in New Prague, Minn. "European Roasterie is committed to promoting a healthy environment in ...
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News Updates
December 13, 2004 Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) To Die a Little: -- Ironically, coffee is one of the products where Mexican and Central American farmers should be profitable according ... Free Trade Debate -- GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The rape of a teen-age girl on a Guatemalan coffee farm is raising doubts about the Central American country's ability to clean up ...
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Frequently Asked Questions
Code of Conduct or "Guidelines for Ethical Trading". A television documentary exploring the deplorable conditions on Guatemalan coffee estates sparked a massive response to this invitation. The European ... Meeting in Seattle to respond to consumer demand and fairness and offer Fair Trade Certified coffee. In a meeting we had that day with Starbucks officials, they stated that they would ...
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Organic Coffee in Guatemala/Planeta.com
If producers can also claim to grow coffee that is shade-grown, bird-friendly, and gourmet, premiums are even more. With prices as low ... are unaware of the existence of these premiums. There is a much greater demand for organic Guatemalan coffee than is currently filled by the certified producers in the country. This may not be ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Destruction/Agriculture
University's Trade and Environment Database Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It Environmental and Cultural Implications of Guatemalan Coffee Production http://www.american.edu/TED/guatcoff.htm a case study focusing on ... and the benefits of shade grown coffee, from American University's Trade and Environment Database Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It Grain - Soya Nexus in South America http://www.grain.org/ ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Regions/Central America and the Caribbean
Central American emphasis Added: Feb. 15, 2001 | Rate It Environmental and Cultural Implications of Guatemalan Coffee Production http://www.american.edu/TED/guatcoff.htm a case study focusing on ... and the benefits of shade grown coffee, from American University's Trade and Environment Database Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It Eye on the Rainforest http://www.eyeontherainforest.org/ (10 votes) ...
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Travel Books and Travelogues - National Geographic Traveler Highlights the Best Travel Writing
Committee of the Peasant Union (CUC). Though some of the book's autobiographical details have been questioned, the events described are an undisputed part of Guatemalan history. Guyana The Ventriloquist's Tale, by Pauline Melville (1999). English scholar Rosa Mendelson travels to contemporary Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, to retrace the voyage of novelist Evelyn Waugh. ...
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How ecological agriculture changed my life
How ecological agriculture changed my life GABINO LOPEZ I was born and grew up in a Guatemalan Indian village and became a small farmer there. The biggest problem in my life was always a ... 15 years ago. People have adopted new crops, developed whole new cropping systems - such as growing coffee under a dozen different fruit trees - and manage their forest plots as sustainable businesses. We have ...
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Coffee Conscience/Planeta.com
Guatemalan brew was described in the trade magazine Coffee Journal. And now gourmet coffee, in turn, has been invaded by social and ... Musuem of Natural History had noted that the density and diversity of bird populations in traditional coffee farms varied little from virgin forest, an observation whose significance was little noted until recent ...
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