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"maff" |
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05 Jun 2005 03:24:23 AM |
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OT: Brewing up a better deal for coffee farmers |
Brewing up a better deal for coffee farmers
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1499287,00.html
Roger Cowe reports from El Salvador on an alternative to the Fairtrade
scheme that is giving hope to small growers
Sunday June 5, 2005
The Observer
In one of the few remaining rooms of an earthquake-ravaged mansion, a
group of Salvadoran coffee farmers sit round a table. They are the
directors of the Las Lajas co-operative.
'We have been talking about our relationship with the bank and how to
secure more credit for investment in the farm,' explains the president,
Sim=F3n Antonio Ch=E1vez. Las Lajas, like most coffee farms in central
America, is struggling to recover from the slump in prices at the
beginning of the decade which made much of the region's coffee
uneconomic. Farmers couldn't afford fertiliser or wages for workers to
prune the trees and production fell. The harvest now being processed at
the Las Lajas mill is good, but it is still only half of what it was
during the peak of 1985.
El Salvador
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Cooperatives
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c4d71ff70eb64fa2
Fair trade
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/ebb4fdffe8155c52
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| User: "R. Pierce Butler" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Brewing up a better deal for coffee farmers |
05 Jun 2005 12:46:37 PM |
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"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1117959863.609085.185750
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
Brewing up a better deal for coffee farmers
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1499287,00.html
Roger Cowe reports from El Salvador on an alternative to the Fairtrade
scheme that is giving hope to small growers
Why in the hell is this coffee article important? Why is in in
alt.atheism? If you want to talk about something a bit OT why not talk
about raising awareness of things like 1 million people dying every year
from something that can be prevented? One million deaths!!!! And this
goes on every year and has been going on for many years. These deaths
could have been prevented if Rachel carson, Greenpeace, and others had
sought the truth about DDT and other pesticides instead of making up BS as
they went along and passing it off as fact. I assure you that things would
be a lot different if they had family members dying and dead of malaria.
So much for the Xtian way of life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7721533/
Efforts to cut global malaria deaths slowed
Shortages, delays hamper campaign to reduce fatalities
Updated: 1:29 p.m. ET May 3, 2005
GENEVA - A shortage of drugs and funds and delays in distributing mosquito
nets in Africa are hampering a campaign to reduce malaria’s annual death
toll of one million worldwide, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Some 350 million to 500 million people in more than 100 countries each year
catch the deadly disease, which can kill in hours, the World Health
Organization and U.N. Children’s Fund said in their World Malaria Report
2005.
Billed as the first global report, it follows a scathing editorial in The
Lancet medical journal last month accusing an international partnership of
more than 90 organizations and countries of failing to control malaria,
saying they may have done more harm than good.
The Roll Back Malaria partnership, which includes the WHO and World Bank,
was set up in 1998 to coordinate the fight against the mosquito-borne
disease. Its goal is to halve malaria mortality by 2010 and again by 2015.
Africa is the hardest-hit region, with 80 percent of deaths worldwide, the
majority south of the Sahara where the most deadly species of the malaria
parasite thrives, the report said.
“Malaria remains the infectious disease that takes more lives of children
in Africa than any other -- three times as many as HIV infection,” said the
new UNICEF executive director Ann Veneman, a former U.S. agriculture
secretary."
rj
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