Global Exchange : nacla1000.html (#)

  „Fair Trade advocates pressured existing coffee companies to abide by Fair Trade criteria and carry the Max Havelaar label, which now enjoys wide recognition all over Holland. Max Havelaar later added sugar, cocoa, tea, honey and bananas--historically colonial cash crops--from cooperatives in former colonies. More countries took on the concept and changed the name to TransFair, and in 1997 incorporated into Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO), which now has branches in Canada, Japan, and 15 importing countries in Europe.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ nacla1000.html - Cached

See Technorati for links to this site, see Alexa for related sites and search this website for ›Cocoa‹.

Some slightly related:

Global Exchange : bingham0899.html

  „In countries where USAID was not involved, national coffee federations promoted the change, supporting the technification of 69 percent of Colombia's coffee and nearly 40 percent of Costa Rica's. In places including Mexico, Colombia, and parts of Central America and the Caribbean some 30 to 40 percent of all coffee land had been converted to modern reduced-shade systems by the early 1990s. Some countries, like El Salvador, missed the boat, their desultory attempts to convert slowed by war and revolution.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ bingham0899.html - Cached

Global Exchange : bostonglobe052001.html

  „That is what 50 students learned at a recent Boston University teach-in about Fair Trade coffee, whose goal is to help coffee farmer cooperatives abroad sell directly to coffee importers for a guaranteed fair price per pound.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/ bostonglobe052001.html - Cached

View topic - La Spaziale New EK - Coffee Forum

  „I am opening a coffee shop and just discovered this great forum. I am looking at the La Spaziale New EK 2 group 10 litre machine and am wondering if anyone has ever used it or has any opinion of this machine.“

http://www.coffeeforums.com/ viewtopic.php?p=6852 - Cached

Global Exchange : bostonglobe072901.html

  „Americans will pay $2 or more for a premium cup of coffee. But de la Rosa, trapped like all small farmers at the losing end of a long chain of transactions between his coffee plants and the coffee cup, sees little of it. He's lucky to live on $2 a day.“

http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/news2001/ bostonglobe072901.html - Cached

Global Exchange : time041700.html

  „Starbucks, the first big U.S. retailer to sign on, will promote its new coffee beans this fall with in-store posters and brochures and keep the product on the shelves in 2,000 outlets for at least a year. Will the effort percolate through the whole $18 billion U.S. coffee industry? Global Exchange, the San Francisco-based human-rights group that organized the aborted protest, is calling on companies such as Folgers and Maxwell House to follow suit. Warns Medea Benjamin, a Global Exchange official: "Coffee without the Fair Trade seal is very likely sweatshop coffee."“

http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/ time041700.html - Cached

Archived in Cocoa