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Archive for April, 2007

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Nicaraguan Coffee Farmers on Tour in California

Monday, April 30th, 2007

CRS supports cooperatives of small-scale coffee farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In Nicaragua, CRS has accompanied the Aroma del Cafe cooperative for the past five years. Three members of that cooperative will be in California from May 3-7 to participate in the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s annual conference. After that, they will […]

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Posted in Coffee, Events, Fair Trade by Michael |

The End of Organic Coffee?

Friday, April 27th, 2007

a USDA ruling threatens to dramatically reduce the availability of certified organic coffee by squeezing hundreds of thousands of small-scale coffee farmers out of the U.S. organic market

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Posted in Certification, Coffee, Organics by Michael |

Coming Soon

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

The CRS Fair Trade blog will launch formally on World Fair Trade Day 2007 — come back then to check out all the bells and whistles. Meantime, bookmark the site and check out the CRS Fair Trade website.

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Posted in Fair Trade by Jackie |