BBC - h2g2 - The Fairtrade Mark (#)
„The extra money our cooperatives receive makes a difference in medicines and nurseries to care for our children. - Mateo Rendon of FESACORA1 UCIRI (the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region), located in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, was the first group of farmers in Mexico to export coffee through the fair trade model. Since the introduction of fair trade practices, the incomes of their over 2000 member families have doubled. This stability has also enabled UCIRI to establish the region's first public bus line, build the only secondary school in the area and build a community health clinic.“
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„UCIRI (the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region), located in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, was the first group of farmers to export coffee through the fair trade model. Since the introduction of fair trade practices, the incomes of their over 2,000 member families have doubled. This stability has also enabled UCIRI to establish the region’s first public bus line, build the only secondary school in the area and build a community health clinic.“
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Tea & Coffee 06/03 - Vietnamese Coffee and the Plight of the Montagnards
„In the Caribbean, the indigenous population was quickly killed off or died of diseases introduced by Europeans, so African slaves were transported to work on the coffee and sugar plantations. By 1790, the French were growing half the world’s coffee on the island of San Domingo (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic), but a slave revolt the following year destroyed the plantations. In Brazil, the Portuguese imported African slaves to labor on the coffee plantations until 1888, when slavery was finally abolished.“
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„Organic Guatemalan, Medium Roast is a delicate coffee with a pleasant acidity, good body & distinctive fruitiness. Fairly traded gourmet coffee produced by indigenous Guatemalan cooperatives .“
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„Higher Grounds works to support indigenous rights and autonomy by selling fair trade, shade grown, and organic coffee direct from Mayan cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico. They also lead delegations to the region and maintain an educational website to inform U.S. based consumers about the effects of global economic policies on the indigenous of Mexico.“
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International Coffee Organization
„There are probably at least 25 major species, all indigenous to tropical Africa and certain islands in the Indian Ocean, notably Madagascar. Difficulties in classification and even in designation of a plant as a true member of the Coffea genus arise because of the great variation in the plants and seeds. All species of Coffea are woody, but they range from small shrubs to large trees over 10 metres tall; the leaves can be yellowish, dark green, bronze or tinged with purple.“
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