Sentences with phrase «by coffee farmers»

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

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Strategic branding and creative agency Design Coup cut its fee roughly in half for coffee company Thrive Farmers, because it was so impressed by the startup's business model.
David Griswold cofounded and ran Aztec Harvest, a sales - and - marketing outfit for coffee farmers from Mexican cooperatives that was owned by the farmers.
Much is siphoned off by middlemen in the export country, known to Latin American farmers as «coyotes,» who offer the lowest possibleprice - leaving some 20 million coffee farmers trapped in poverty.
I so look forward to Saturday morning beach walks followed by farmers market coffee and shopping.
In 2002 our program was launched as «UTZ kapeh» (pronounced o͞otz kahpāy) by a Belgian - Guatemalan coffee farmer and a Dutch coffee roaster, meaning «good coffee» in the Guatemalan Mayan language of Quiché.
We invite you to join the efforts of Project 2050 by purchasing carbon offsets, investing in reforestation efforts, and supporting coffee farmers taking steps toward better production practices.
The High 5 For Farmers program provides support directly to the farms where the organic coffee is produced by providing $ 10,000 to growers to complete much needed community based projects in education, health care, agricultural programs and farm development.
I discovered Kona coffee, grown in limited areas of Hawaii by a select group of farmers.
The coastal mountains of Oaxaca produces some of the world's finest organic coffee, thanks to decades of tireless work by rural farmers.
Generate resources, financial or otherwise, for indigenous coffee farmers as a result of selling verified emissions reductions on the voluntary carbon market, and by selling Climate - friendly branded coffee.
A few months ago I wrote about the announcement of new award for coffee farmers initiated by Cooper Ecological Monitoring, Roast Magazine, and Birder's Exchange (a program of the American Birding Association).
A new award for coffee farmers is being initiated by Cooper Ecological Monitoring, Roast Magazine, and Birder's Exchange (a program of the American Birding Association).
Dr Gladys Kalema - Zikusoka, founder of Gorilla Conservation Coffee, the game - changing for - profit social enterprise which aims to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers whilst at the same time protecting mountain gorillas in Uganda, has just been recognised by this year's prestigious SEED ACoffee, the game - changing for - profit social enterprise which aims to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers whilst at the same time protecting mountain gorillas in Uganda, has just been recognised by this year's prestigious SEED Acoffee farmers whilst at the same time protecting mountain gorillas in Uganda, has just been recognised by this year's prestigious SEED Awards.
And while Kraft deserves some credit, as none of the other Big Coffee companies is making this type of effort, real environmental preservation and fair prices for farmers is far, far better served by purchasing sustainable coffees from small companies and roasters with relationships with their suppliers, especially those that provide information on the specific farms where their beans are sourced.
• Fairtrade certification helps Ugandan coffee farmers increase household living standards by 30 percent and significantly reduces the prevalence and depth of poverty (Chiputwa, et.
I'm sure if Smucker had upped the ante, they'd brag about it, because their 2013 Corporate Responsibility Report touted this relationship... by highlighting the work TechnoServe had done with 170,000 coffee farmers, making it sound as if Smucker should receive lots of credit.
This short film by Roberta Dugan outlines the plight of coffee farmers whose lives have been devastated by landmines and explosive remnants of war.
Even if a farm produces coffee in a manner that complies with many, most, or all of the requirements set forth by a particular certification, it's up to the farmer to prove it.
As I noted in the previous post, the investment in technical assistance to farmers builds on the commitment to purchase increasing amounts of certified coffee, primarily from farms certified by Rainforest Alliance.
Book: Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers by Maria Elena Martinez - Torres.
Thanks to our partners and customers, more than 30 million trees have been donated to coffee farmers thus far and we have quadrupled our commitment to get 100 million trees to coffee farmers by 2025.
By drinking shade - grown and bird friendly certified coffee every morning, you are supporting these coffee farmers, the efforts of the ABA and BirdNote, and the countless birds they are protecting through community outreach and conservation.
The coffee is shade - grown on steep volcanic slopes of the Northwestern Highlands of Guatemala by Maya Quiche coffee farmers.
We know that the most pressing issues in coffee can't be solved by one company alone, and that the best solutions require everyone coming together to collaborate in bringing about a better future for farmers.
The livelihoods of coffee farmers and the businesses who rely on these farmers to grow great coffee are urgently threatened by:
In the coffee fields of Vietnam, everyday objects that are often thrown away are getting a new lease of life, as tools to help farmers save water by scheduling irrigation more effectively.
Coffee farmers are largely motivated by economics.
Traditionally, these were coffees held over a period of time by farmers who wanted to sell them at higher prices.
Launched by the Free Range Dairy Network, Coffee & Cows wants cafés to talk to their customers about the life of the cows, how much farmers are paid for milk and educate them about the Pasture Promise free range milk — all of which helps deliver a fairer deal for both farmers and cows.
Making sure that coffee farmers receive a living wage is one way to help preserve habitat — both by encouraging sustainable coffee farming methods that produce the highest quality coffee, and by empowering farmers economically and reducing their need to exploit the environment for survival.
Coffee is grown on the foothills of Mount Kenya, often by small farmers.
We are also proud to offer many Certified Organic and Fair Trade coffees that have been sustainably nurtured by caring farmers.
The campaign is also working with The Fairtrade Foundation to compare challenges faced by British dairy farmers and Ugandan coffee growers.
The training classes were complemented by a variety of coffee and tea cupping sessions hosted by Fairtrade, Mercanta and the Lugu Farmers Association.
Being shown a cacao pod by a local coffee bean farmer, it sparked a life changing «aha» moment.
Founded in 2010 by a farmer's co-operative in the San Joaquin Valley and headed by beverage visionary Greg Steltenpohl, Califia Farms is one of the fastest - growing natural beverage companies in the U.S., as well as the leading brand in the natural products coffee drinks category.
Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).
The world's most damaging coffee disease, leaf rust has torn through Latin America, costing farmers an estimated $ 1 billion and cutting some harvests by more than half in Central America.
The latest finding from these researchers suggests that the birds are returning the favor to farmers by eating an aggressive coffee bean pest, the borer beetle, thereby improving coffee bean yields by hundreds of dollars per hectare.
Start with organic coffee beans, produced by farmers who don't use pesticides.
Today coffee is grown by many 5th generation descendants of these hard working farmers as well as by larger corporations, and a number of recent entrepreneurs who have given up city life to farm the land.
The green beans may be sold to roasters, or custom - roasted by the farmer or processor to produce a unique coffee.
Batukaru, in the western part of Bali, Pupuan is a coffee, clove and rice growing region of towering trees and twisting mountain roads, where you can pamper your eyes with awesome landscape accompanied by no one other than the friendly local farmers and cool climate.
Old coffee grounds have been found by farmers to produce some of the biggest melons, tomatoes and carrots.
Buy Fair Trade - if you can not grow your own coffee and cocoa, support the farmers more directly by buying fair trade.
And deforestation caused by agriculture, particularly coffee plantations, leaves native birds without a habitat, though conservation groups are working with local farmers to promote shade - grown coffee and end clear - cutting.
Together with partner organizations and the Peruvian government, we're tackling key drivers of deforestation in the Amazon — supply chains built around coffee, cocoa, and oil palm — by implementing a «Production - Protection Compact» that simultaneously protects forests and benefits small - scale farmers.
Being one minute in a coffee farming area in Ethiopia, in the area of Sidamo or Yirgacheffe, areas that are celebrated around the world by coffee experts as producing some of the best coffee in the world, and the farmers there are facing a humanitarian crisis.
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