Tea & Coffee 10/03 - Certified Sustainable Coffee (#)

  „All three certification programs vouch for the conditions and practices at La Trinidad, a far-flung cooperative in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Sustainable Harvest imports La Trinidad’s “triple certified” coffee which is snapped up by buyers such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Caribou Coffee Company. Coffee Enterprises, a company known for its progressive practices and support of such programs as Coffee Kids, squeezes the essence of some La Trinidad coffee for use in specialized flavorings. The new Ben & Jerry’s “Coffee for a Change” ice cream is flavored with La Trinidad’s best beans.“

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CoffeeKids.org (INeedCoffee.com)

  „The most common is the microcredit solution. Coffee Kids provides seed money to start a community bank, founded on a sustainable credit model. In Oaxaca, Mexico, Coffee Kids was instrumental in setting up a microcredit system led by the women of the community. Thus, the women have set up small businesses that bring a level of economic stability to the community that is not based upon the volatile coffee markets.“

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CoffeeGeek - Sustainable Harvest Coffee Prepares Latin American Growers for Worst

  „  Its supply-focused operation, Sustainable Origins, is based in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Sustainable Harvest imports organic, sustainable and fair-trade specialty coffees from nine countries. David Griswold is founder and President of Sustainable Harvest and is the current President of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world's largest coffee industry trade group.  “

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BBC - h2g2 - The Fairtrade Mark

  „- Mateo Rendon of FESACORA1 UCIRI (the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region), located in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, was the first group of farmers in Mexico to export coffee through the fair trade model. Since the introduction of fair trade practices, the incomes of their over 2000 member families have doubled. This stability has also enabled UCIRI to establish the region's first public bus line, build the only secondary school in the area and build a community health clinic. - IFAT website These are just a few reasons why fair trade is such a challenging, revolutionary and important idea, and why people must be encouraged to buy fairly-traded produce and join the campaign for fairness in international trade, putting people before profits.“

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Coffee Kids | Community - Oaxaca

  „Often this translates into migration to urbancenters or heading north toward the US border. By collaborating with a local organization in Oaxacacalled CAMPO (Center of Support for the Popular Movement of Oaxaca), Coffee Kids is supporting aproject that provides 200 indigenous families with a healthy and environmentally sound alternativeto sole economic dependence on coffee farming.“

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Global Exchange : Starbucks Coffee in Mexico, new controversy

  „(Washington, August 24th.) When Starbucks Coffee International opens its first coffee shops in Mexico City, at the end of this summer, the huge chain will offer, along with the imported coffee, shade grown coffee, produced in the biosphere reserve El Triunfo, in Chiapas; some critics in the United States, although, state that the enterprise should sell in México nothing other than Mexican products.“

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