Cafe Campesino ...from crop to cup a Fair Trade (#)
„Promotora de Desarollo Cooperativo de Las Segovias (PRODECOOP), Esteli, Nicaragua — Fair Trade revenue has assisted in the construction of schools and healthcare centers; training in administration; legal matters and organizational issues. From sales to the fair trade market, PRODECOOP will generate over $600,000 in premiums for the membership this year alone. This is used to pay bank debt, invest in farm improvements, improve nutrition and avoid the loss of land due to crushing debt service. Café Campesino has recently added PRODECOOP to our producers and look forward to working with them this year.“
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„PRODECOOP (the Promoter of Cooperative Development in the Segovias), an association of 71 farmer co-ops and collectives in northern Nicaragua, sold its very first container of organic coffee to Equal Exchange back in 1991. In the years leading up to this momentous occasion, Equal Exchange played a key role in helping the co-op get off the ground, counseling the group in money management, helping develop credit capacity, and even extending small loans to its members. Our partnership has been strong ever since.“
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Global Exchange : Coffee Cooperatives
„In October of 1998, Hurricane Mitch ripped through northern Nicaragua,damaging homes, farms and roads. With the organizational strength theyhad gained over the years, PRODECOOP was able to provide assistanceand channel outside aid, rebuilding homes and roads, and repairingcoffee processing equipment so that farmers would have incomes thenext year. Merling Preza Ramos, PRODECOOP's Director, told GlobalExchange that "the producer is offering coffee of very high quality,and in return, asks that they are paid a fair price, the real price,the real value of their product. Therefore, it's not a charity.“
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„This lot comes from the 11 farms that have already been certified organic and are members of the community group Las Segovias. A side note; this lot is Fair Trade Certified too, which is a little ironic because with competition coffees we pay far more for the lots than Fair Trade would require! The coffee is grown in remote areas with no roads .it is carried to wet mill by mule or on the shoulders of their members.“
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„In Nicaragua , Equal Exchange helped small farmers to organize their own cooperative federation, PRODECOOP. By participating in the Coffee Project, your congregation can help communities invest in farm improvements, reduce debt, improve nutrition, and provide leadership training for women. "It is very important for you to know that fair trade leads to better roads, better health and better lives for farmers not just in Nicaragua, but around the world," says Rosario Castellón, former director of PRODECOOP.“
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„These coffees were selected in the aid of the Cup of the Excellence, an event that is made for the first time in El Salvador and that has had good results in other countries of Central America, like Nicaragua and Guatemala. A total of 22 international and representing tasters of buying companies of coffee was in charge to describe products as the Salvadoran property. The experts assured that the best coffee El Salvador is in Santa Ana Three property of this department took to the presidential prize?Taza of the Excellence, by to have surpassed the 90 points in the qualification of the judges. The producers Everest, Alvarez Prunera and Compańi'a and Francisco Arturo Alvarez santanecas of Kilimanjaro, Malacara Rocks received the recognitions to produce the best Salvadoran coffees in the property Lot To and Malacara Lot C.“
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