Organic News Winter/Spring 1999 (#)

  „According to Neil Harvey's "Rebellion in Chiapas" (Transformation of Rural Mexico, No. 5), over 90% of coffee growers in Chiapas, Mexico, farm an average of 11 acres each, while wealthy plantation owners, which make up .15% of all coffee growers, control an average of 220 acres each. These small farmers are unable to compete with the production efficiency of large plantations, thus they are locked out of the market and forced to sell their beans at very low prices.“

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The SCAE Awards for Coffee Excellence

  „Finca Irlanda is a farm located in the region of Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico. Because of its high quality, Finca Irlanda is considered among the best coffee producers in Mexico. Along with its pioneering role in the production of organic biodinamic coffee (Demeter´s first certification for biodinamically grown coffee), it has also played a leading work promoting this production system. Finca Irlanda is also doing a huge effort to improve social conditions for workers and their families, focusing in issues related to health, education, nutrition, and community infrastructure.“

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  „We are fostering a new relationship with the non-profit organization, Icsur, in Chiapas. While in Mexico, we traveled to coffee-farming communities with all three of these organizations over the course of three weeks.“

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It's All About Coffee

  „Long renowned in Europe and Japan, premium—hard bean, fine washed, shade grown, organic—coffee from Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state, is finally being made available in the U.S. This mellow, balanced, superior quality coffee will initially be marketed through both retail and foodservice in Classic French Roast, Rich Vienna Roast, Traditional City Roast, Mexican Coffee Liquor & Cream; a certified organic variety will follow soon.“

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Global Exchange : Mexican coffee growers slam environmentalists' multinational ties

  „Four coffee cooperatives in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have complained that U.S. environmental group Conservation International is trying to gain control of their harvests to sell to companies like Starbucks and Coffee Company International.Sixto Cruz, a spokesman for cooperative Triunfo Verde, told that the situation is one more act of "trade imperialism or 'Yankee coyote-ism,'" which is further impoverishing some 28,000 families who grow coffee in the central region of Chiapas. Cruz believes the organic coffee grown in Chiapas is of higher quality than the beans from Vietnam or even Colombia, two of the world's largest producers. Organic coffee growing enabled this area to dodge the negative effects of the coffee crisis that began in the late 1980s and has knocked market prices down to less than the cost of production.“

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