Sentences with phrase «small coffee farmers»

A lot of coffee farmers, specifically small coffee farmers, are susceptible to so many things that are out of their control: mainly weather and market volatility.

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

The International Coffee Organization (ICO)- the largest international lobby for the coffee industry - lists climate change as one of the most important factors adversely affecting small coffee farmers.

All I can say is that from reading this news article, there seems to be a lot of conspiring and manipulation between big bucks companies and the so called ethical / environmental certification agencies at the expense of small coffee farmers and mother nature.

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The impact will be enormous, particularly for the 25 million small land - holder farmers who grow coffee in more than 70 countries.

While claiming to promote food security and benefit small farmers, Grow's focus on a few high - value commodities — like potatoes, maize, coffee, tea and palm oil — exposes the programme's real objective: to expand the production of a handful of commodities to profit a handful of corporations.

Since 1990, Organic Products Trading Company has been working directly with small - scale farmers around the world to source high quality green specialty coffee.

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.

I am currently working with small scale farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands and we have recently become interested in the idea of growing shade - grown coffee as a way of sustaining the local growers and preserving some of the native forests in the region.

With the liberalization of the Kenyan coffee market, more and more specialty roasters are buying small lots directly from farmers, often providing detailed information on the farms.

Small Farmers, Big Change quotes a coffee cooperative rep from Peru:

Coffee farmers, particularly small producers, are ultimately in the business of growing coffee to support their famCoffee farmers, particularly small producers, are ultimately in the business of growing coffee to support their famcoffee to support their families.

We source Copper Moon Coffee from small and large coffee farmers throughout the Coffee from small and large coffee farmers throughout the coffee farmers throughout the world.

Coffee is grown on the foothills of Mount Kenya, often by small farmers.

Here is a summary of the generic producer standards for small producers (which apply to coffee farmers) that address preserving and protecting the environment:

Most small - scale family farmers live in remote locations and lack access to credit, so they are vulnerable to middlemen who offer cash for their coffee at a fraction of its value.

The FFS has now become a model approach for farmer education in Asia and many parts of Africa and Latin America, and has since been used with a wide range of crops including cotton, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, vegetables, small grains and legumes.

Our small coffee roastery with focus on sourcing the highest quality, most unique & freshest coffee available for the season.We are buying as directly as possible from what we believe are the best coffee farmers around the world.

«Especially these peasant farmers who maybe have a small plot of land, they rely almost exclusively on coffee sales to sustain themselves,» Myers said.

Vega Coffee works with small - scale Nicaraguan farmers, giving them the tools and training to roast and package their coffee, which allows them to earn up to four times more per Coffee works with small - scale Nicaraguan farmers, giving them the tools and training to roast and package their coffee, which allows them to earn up to four times more per coffee, which allows them to earn up to four times more per pound.

Perfect Green Coffee supports small farmers and their communities, and is grown without pesticides.

Many ex-slaves settled as small farmers in the mountains or on marginal lands in the plains away from the plantations, and the economy slowly diversified from sugar to a broader range of exports including wood, coffee and bananas.

Small average farm size ensures that Kona's coffee farmers have an incentive to cultivate coffee in a way that is sustainable and maintains the quality for which Kona Coffee has become coffee farmers have an incentive to cultivate coffee in a way that is sustainable and maintains the quality for which Kona Coffee has become coffee in a way that is sustainable and maintains the quality for which Kona Coffee has become Coffee has become known.

A combination café and roaster, the beans used in the excellent coffee here are sustainably sourced from small - scale hill tribe farmers north of Luang Prabang.

There's a small but charming Saturday farmers» market selling everything from papayas to «plate lunch» (the classic Hawaiian lunch staple, usually consisting of a smoky barbecued meat with generous portions of white rice and macaroni salad); a soap factory that uses indigenous ingredients like kukui and macadamia nuts; and Waialua Coffee & Chocolate, which serves up some of the island's best of both.

The small towns of Bellavista and Santa Rosa were established in the humid highlands, where farmers raised cattle and planted crops such as avocados, coffee, sugarcane, bananas, oranges, and lemons.

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.

Cultivation of the arabica coffee plant, staple of daily caffeine fixes and economic lifeline for millions of small farmers, is under threat from climate change as rising temperatures and new rainfall patterns limit the areas where it can be grown, researchers have warned.

Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant Study warns that rising temperatures pose serious threat to global coffee market, potentially affecting livelihoods of small farmers and pushing up Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant Study warns that rising temperatures pose serious threat to global coffee market, potentially affecting livelihoods of small farmers and pushing up coffee market, potentially affecting livelihoods of small farmers and pushing up prices

Save chimps and support small farmers, one sip at a time, with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters» Gombe Special Reserve line.

Larry's Beans are sourced worldwide from small family farmers who are paid an international fair trade price for their shade grown organic coffee beans.

Oxfam says «Despite prices rising since 2001, many small - scale coffee farmers and their families still can not earn a decent income, not to mention afford basic expenses such as food, healthcare and education.»

In coffee, Fair Trade standards today only works with small farmer coops.

Coffee was the pioneering product in Fair Trade, still the number one product, and coffee is probably the last global cash crop that is mostly still produced by small family faCoffee was the pioneering product in Fair Trade, still the number one product, and coffee is probably the last global cash crop that is mostly still produced by small family facoffee is probably the last global cash crop that is mostly still produced by small family farmers.

They're not in your way at the Cheesecake Factory or Costco because they keep to themselves at their small coffee shops, farmer's markets, and neighborhood restaurants — which are incredible by the way.