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„The objective of this medium-sized grant is to boost the production of organically grown shade coffee in order to provide habitat for species (especially birds) that depend upon El Salvador's vastly reduced forest cover for survival. The project includes studies on shade coffee's impacts on biodiversity, extension services, education, development of bird-friendly coffee certification criteria, marketing campaign for bird-friendly coffee, monitoring and investments to enhance habitat quality and quantity.“
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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 Compañi'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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„Troubled as El Salvador may be, the country remains the coffee champion of Central America with a crop last year of about 150,000 tons, worth 532 million dollars to an economy almost totally dependent upon this one commodity.“
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„The global coffee crisis that began with the demise of the International Coffee Agreement regulating the supply of coffee, hit Salvadoran coffee farmers hard. Coffee prices fell, often below the costs of production. Many cooperatives could no longer make payments on their debts and in many cases, the banks foreclosed.“
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„“We used to live in houses made of corn husks,” says Don Miguel Sifontes, president of a coffee cooperative in El Salvador that sells to Equal Exchange. “Now we have better work, better schools, homes of adobe, and a greater brotherhood of decision-makers.”“
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El Salvador- Coffee and Biodiversity
„A core group of experts meeting in Washington arrived at this conclusion during a recent evaluation of the outcomes achieved by " The Coffee an Biodiversity" project in El Salvador. The 3 year-project that will close in December is being implemented by the Coffee Research Foundation (PROCAFE) and Salva Natura, a local NGO, associated with the Rain Forest Alliance, an institution that certifies the production of environmentally friendly. It is sponsoredby the World Bank and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), In the present scenario of record decline in coffee prices, shade grown coffee represents a new option for coffee growers. According to project coordinator, Inés Maria Ortiz, "We have been able to create a platform for differentiating El Salvador's coffee, in such a way that we hope that the success achieved by the producers will encourage the development of a national policy in this area".“
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