BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Laos' fresh coffee hopes (#)
„But things could be about to change. Fresh thinking Mr Nomala and about 100 other small coffee growers have joined forces with an American entrepreneur, Lee Thorn, who is determined to find a niche for Laotian coffee in the United States.“
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Tea & Coffee 11/00 - World News
„The commission, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement, would bring together more than 50 shade-coffee growers’ associations, Mexican farmers’ co-operatives, North American buyers (including Starbucks), and bankers for the two-day meeting.“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/1100/world.htm
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„Participants in the Women in Coffee tour group met primarily with female growers, and the open exchange between the two groups was powerful. When Karyn Lee Thomas, owner of Signature Coffee in Northern California, returned home from the tour, she immediately registered to begin selling fair-trade coffee. “I had been buying fair-trade coffee and knew it was the right thing to do. But I hadn’t been putting it on the packaging—I didn’t know if I wanted to go through the bureaucracy [of being certified].“
http://www.freshcup.com/oct03_rosie.htm
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„Costa Rican, Vienna Roast — Founders of the Latin American Small Coffee Growers Front, COOCAFE provides resources for crop diversification, reforestation, and education programs that the ensure a sustainable, safe, and just harvest. The coffee is no less distinctive — full-bodied with a sweet flavor and spicy aroma.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/products/bulk.html
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Global Exchange : Coffee growers make case
„That's the choice that members of coffee grower cooperatives want Americans to make. It's the difference, they say, in whether coffee growers continue to struggle financially until they're forced to abandon their farms, or they and their families gain some quality of life.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 1807.html
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„In this tiny land with a tropical rainy climate, tucked in the middle of the American continent, over 78,000 coffee growers - large, medium and small, but mostly small - are responsible for one of the country's most important production activities, not only by virtue of its economic impact, but also, and above all else, because of the place it occupies as an essential element of Costa Rican culture.“
http://www.icafe.go.cr/icafe/index_eng.htm
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