Sentences with phrase «coffee farmers»

It means children of coffee farmers sent to school rather than put to work.

Take it from someone who has dedicated his career to working with coffee farmers and has forgotten more about coffee than I'll ever know.

For coffee farmers who'd grown to enjoy their regular beverage, this was hard to take.

What we as coffee consumers tend to forget is that many coffee farmers have limited literacy and keep very minimal records.

The freshest organic coffee farmer direct family owned organic coffee selection of healthful coffee products.

Additionally, it has been difficult to adequately communicate the story to consumers about the challenges the world's coffee farmers face and how it will affect future opportunities to consume coffee.

She is currently developing an instrument to collect feedback data on the social impact of development assistance given to small - scale coffee farmers affected by the recent coffee leaf rust disorder epidemic.

This association of over 400 women coffee farmers came together to solve issues including lack of capital to use on their farms and to create an equitable working relationship with their husbands.

Any time coffee prices are high, coffee farmers tend to plant more coffee.

Coffee is one commodity which started the fair trade movement because coffee farmers were paid extremely unfair wages that did not support basic human needs, while corrupt «middle men» became wealthy.

It's also our feeling that the best way to deliver great prices to farmers, and also assess and improve the environmental impact, is to work directly and constantly with coffee farmers.

Even coffee that costs $ 15 a pound works out to well under a dollar a cup, tastes great, helps preserve biodiversity, and provides a decent living for coffee farmers.

The true cultural event of the year, the November fest is the years highlight for most of coffee farmers in Kona.

It was in response to a question from a Rainforest Alliance certified coffee farmer who attended the conference.

The Kona Coffee Farmers Association Banquet and Auction is on November 14 — a great evening, don't miss it!.

We've covered the fabulous Freeplay Lifeline Radio before, and we've also written about the plight of coffee farmers who are exploited because they lack information about current market prices.

This notice is supported by the Hawaii Coffee Association, the Kona Coffee Council and the Kona Coffee Farmers Association

The Starbucks and Conservation International partnership supports coffee farmers in mitigating the impacts of climate change.

The GUAYA'B Association is a cooperative of 292 small coffee farmers in the mountainous Guatemalan state of Huehuetenango.

We've stood with coffee farmers on their land, gotten to know their names and their families.

Making sure that coffee farmers receive a living wage is one way to help preserve habitat...

«Thousands of Colombian coffee farmers who are certified by both UTZ and The Rainforest Alliance will benefit from this development.

«But Ethiopian coffee farmers only earn between 30 and 59 pence for their crop, barely enough to cover the cost of production,» Maskela said in a statement.

In my post «Coffee farms and carbon sequestration,» I discussed the potential of carbon credits in helping coffee farmers earn extra income, and provided some statistics and references on carbon sequestration on coffee farms in and other tropical agroforestry systems.

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.

As a continuation of the company's ethical sourcing commitment, Starbucks will launch a pilot program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia and Rwanda to develop traceability technology, and collaborate with Conservation International to measure the impact to farmers.

• Fairtrade certification helps Ugandan coffee farmers increase household living standards by 30 percent and significantly reduces the prevalence and depth of poverty (Chiputwa, et.

This situation is beginning to worsen, as production costs for coffee farmers around the world are rising due to the skyrocking costs of petroleum - based fertilizers, and the global credit crunch.

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.

Quote from UTZ certified coffee farmer Sergio Fuentes Ramirez from Peru talking about the impact of training.

Quote from UTZ certified coffee farmer Amaro Chasquero from Peru talking about climate change.

These awards recognizes Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified coffee farmers dedicated to growing top...

What they don't know is that since organic coffee farmers do not use chemical sprays, the plants have no defense against toxins like T - 2 toxins, ochratoxins, vomitoxins, and rubratoxins.

Thousands of impoverished coffee farmers made their way north, with many crossing the border into the U.S. to seek employment.

If you read the rest of this blog, you will see that while I don't spend a great deal of time on Fair Trade issues (since many other web sites cover that exclusively), I frequently discuss the link between poverty and coffee farmers not making a decent living as being a critical part of the sustainable coffee equation.

Join the Polus Center as we host 5 Industry panelists at the National Coffee Association and explore the challenges faced by coffee farmers living in conflict zones.

The authors of this study interviewed 36 Mexican shade coffee farmers regarding their knowledge and resultant perception and attitudes of the wildlife on their farms.

«Coffee shops can sell Sidamo and Harar coffees for up to 14 pounds ($ 26.29) a pound (0.45 kg) because of the beans» specialty status,» said Tadesse Maskela, head of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia.

The French director is known for Beau Travail, a loose reworking of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and White Material, about a French coffee farmer working in an African state during a civil war.

Challenges such as the coffee berry borer, labeling, and marketing still persist, but today's Kona coffee farmers meet those challenges with the same independence and toughness of their predecessors.

Ugandan Coffee Farmers Alliance, UCFA, has been using a smartphone app to monitor and manage coffee delivery.

His video was posted Jan. 29 as a response to a Dec. 20 video, Starbucks talks about coffee farmers in Africa, in which Starbucks executive Dub Hay (described as head of its coffee team) explains why the company will not sign a trademark agreement with Ethiopia recognizing its rights in its geographic name.

Given the nature of his business (it's essentially a liaison between coffee farmers, roasters, and retailers), David Griswold has been able to establish an extraordinary level of accountability with every party he does business with.

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.

The ability to incorporate technology into this process means the potential to connect directly with tens of thousands of sustainable coffee farmers, and the possibility of financial inclusion for these farmers, he said.

The promise of connecting coffee farmers to coffee drinkers is an extraordinary leap in transparency and accountability, and it speaks volumes about Starbucks commitment to creating a product that is good for people and for the planet.»

C.A.F.E. Practices lay out economic, social, quality and environmental standards that all Starbucks coffee farmers and suppliers must meet via a third - party verification system.