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SBN Feature Article: February 1997
Alliance Awards Seal Of Approval To El Jute NEW YORK -- A Guatemalan coffee farm has earned the first ECO-O.K. seal of approval ... Jute, is south of Guatemala City. According to Luis Gaitan, the Guatemalan biologist who led the ECO-O.K. inspection team, "El ... pesticides and fertilizers. The first shipment of ECO-O.K. coffee was purchased by Coffee America, a trading company in Englewood Cliffs, N.J ...
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News Updates
Economy > Fair Trade > Coffee > News Updates Fair Trade Coffee News October 27, 2005 Associated Press McDonald's to Start Selling Organic Coffee -- McDonald's Corp. will begin selling organic coffee at its New England ... Free Trade Debate -- GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The rape of a teen-age girl on a Guatemalan coffee farm is raising doubts about the Central American country's ability to clean up its ...
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Frequently Asked Questions
Guatemala showed that over half of all coffee pickers don't receive the minimum wage, in violation of Guatemalan labor laws. Workers interviewed in the study ... Coffee Federation to implement a Code of Conduct or "Guidelines for Ethical Trading". A television documentary exploring the deplorable conditions on Guatemalan coffee estates sparked a massive response to this invitation. The European Coffee ...
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Organic Coffee in Guatemala/Planeta.com
However many if not most farmers in Guatemala are unaware of the existence of these premiums. There is a much greater demand for organic Guatemalan coffee than is currently filled by the certified producers in the country. This may not be true for organic coffee from other parts of the world ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Destruction/Agriculture
Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It Coffee Exports from Costa Rica http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/coffee.htm (1 vote) discusses the impacts of increasing ... Environmental and Cultural Implications of Guatemalan Coffee Production http://www.american.edu/TED/guatcoff.htm a case study focusing on Guatemalan coffee and the benefits of shade grown coffee, from American University' ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Regions/Central America and the Caribbean
Cultural Implications of Guatemalan Coffee Production http://www.american.edu/TED/guatcoff.htm a case study focusing on Guatemalan coffee and the benefits of shade grown coffee, from American University' ... Verde http://www.tropicoverde.org/ (5 votes) Trópico Verde is a Guatemalan organization working to protect Guatemalan temperate and rainforests (in Spanish) Added: Feb. 06, 2001 | Rate It ...
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Travel Books and Travelogues - National Geographic Traveler Highlights the Best Travel Writing
El Salvador Bitter Grounds, by Sandra Benitez (1998). Benitez's El Salvador revolves around coffee: it steams and entices even as it divides the locals. Set between the 1930s ... book's autobiographical details have been questioned, the events described are an undisputed part of Guatemalan history. Guyana The Ventriloquist's Tale, by Pauline Melville (1999). English scholar Rosa Mendelson ...
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How ecological agriculture changed my life
GABINO LOPEZ I was born and grew up in a Guatemalan Indian village and became a small farmer there. The biggest problem in my life was ... years ago. People have adopted new crops, developed whole new cropping systems - such as growing coffee under a dozen different fruit trees - and manage their forest plots as sustainable businesses. We ...
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Coffee Conscience/Planeta.com
Guatemalan brew was described in the trade magazine Coffee Journal. And now gourmet coffee, in turn, has been invaded by social and environmental ... reported, of the 6.9 million acres planted to coffee in northern Latin America, about 40% has been converted to "sun coffee". Sun coffee is a modern capital-intensive, high-yielding, hybrid crop ...
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