Archive for November 19th, 2007

Greetings again from Central America. I just posted a note about four coffee cooperatives in Guatemala that are taking coffee roasting into their own hands, and mentioned that the primary market for their roasted coffee will be domestic, with exports as a possibility in the future. I thought a bit more context — [...]

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Greetings from Guatemala. My name is Michael, and I used to work on the CRS Fair Trade Program with Jackie. In September I reluctantly gave up working on Fair Trade full time and began working as the CRS Regional Technical Advisor for Sustainable Livelihoods in Latin America and the Caribbean (a mouthful, I [...]

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