Central America Free Trade Agreement - CAFTA (#)
„New Studies and Publications Ministerio de Economía de Guatemala S Secretaría de Industria y Comercio de Honduras S Ministerio de Economía de El Salvador S Ministerio de Fomento, Industria y Comercio de Nicaragua S Secretaría de Integración Económica Centroamericana, SIECA S United States Trade Representative, USTR“
http://www.worldbank.org/cafta - Cached
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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.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/partners/ elsalvador.html
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„In addition to the recent Honduras auction, El Salvador and Nicaragua farmers also held successful Cup of Excellence auctions this summer for their winning coffees. Between the three auctions, 85 coffee lots were sold to 23 U.S. companies, 22 European companies representing England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Spain, France, Norway and Germany, 19 Japanese companies and 1 Canadian company. The Cup of Excellence family is growing as an increasing array of international roasters support the efforts of quality farmers from a variety of countries.“
http://www.bsca.com.br/ news.php?lang=en&an_id=101
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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.“
http://www.timeforcoffee.com/coffeetime/ news.asp?id=2
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„Previously held in Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, the Cup of Excellence® is a country-wide tasting event that is designed to identify and promote the host country's best coffees through a series of blind tastings (called "cuppings") that are conducted by national and international coffee experts and evaluate every detail, from body and acidity to flavor and balance. Nicaraguan coffee growers of all sizes and from all regions were invited to submit samples for the 2004 Cup of Excellence®.“
http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2004_05_02_bcearc.html
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Fair Trade: A Taste of Justice - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief
„"We used to live in houses made of corn husks," says Don Miguel Sifontes, president of a coffee cooperative that sells to Equal Exchange in El Salvador. "Now we have better work, better schools, homes of adobe, and a greater brotherhood of decision-makers."“
http://www.lwr.org/coffee/justice.asp
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