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Fair Trade: a life or death issue
International trade is not something many of us think about on a daily basis but for many people, particularly in developing countries, it can literally be a life or death issue. The vagaries of...
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East Timor – Fair Trade Coffee
Jo Jouin, former director Sydney’s Toby’s Estate Coffee made a visit to East Timor in late 2004 to look at local conditions. Crema magazine asked Jo to tell us of her experiences. From the moment we...
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Guatemala – A personal journey of discovery
Dean Morgan is a Sydney-based coffee roaster and owner of Morgan’s Handcrafted Coffee. In late 2003 he and his wife Michelle travelled to Guatemala, to track the beans that he roasts, to their source...
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A story just in from Reuters Kampala, written by Frank Nyakairu, reports that changing weather patterns in Uganda may lead to the extinction of the east African country’s key export, coffee, in coming...
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All Is Not Fair
EDITORIAL 21st August 2008 As you may know, this magazine is a supporter of the concept of fairly-traded coffee, but it’s interesting to see how the Fairtrade organization (run under the auspices of...
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