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The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity Coffee Presidia tasting

Posted by TheShot on 02 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Fair Trade

As one of the final events of Slow Food Nation ‘08, we attended The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity Coffee Presidia tasting at Coffee Bar.
It is quite a mouthful of nouns. But the key points are that Slow Food is a non-profit, its Foundation for Biodiversity is a countermeasure effort to the dwindling food product [...]

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Fair Trade: The coffee connection

Posted by TheShot on 14 May 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Robusta

Today’s The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) featured a rather lengthy and balanced story on Fair Trade coffee: The coffee connection.
Many small-market coffee growers face an enormous challenge to earn a living wage in an increasingly competitive world market. To tell this global story, the article presents the issues from the perspective of a coffee farmer in [...]

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