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Wake up and smell the coffee

Wake up and smell the coffee

17 July 2017

Andrea Illy, Chairman of illycaffè, on the critical importance of responsible sourcing

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged ANDREA ILLY, climate change, coffee, DNV-GL Responsible Supply Chain Process Certification, Ethiopian farmers, Fondazione Ernesto Illy, Global Arabica Plan, illycaffè, Oromia, SNNP Region, traceability, Università del Caffè

Switching from coca

Switching from coca

4 July 2011

Guillermo García explains how agribusiness can help Colombia’s peasant farmers ditch coca cultivation and pursue legal and more secure opportunities

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access, agribusiness, agriculture, alternative development, alternatives, Amazon, beans, black pepper, cacao, Canadá, Carrefour, Casino, coca cultivation, cocaine, coconuts, coffee, Columbia, competition, dairy products, demand, development, distribution, drugs, environment, Europe, export, Fair Trade, France, gourmet sauces, government, guerrillas, Guillermo Garcia, heart of palm, honey, illegal, income, infrastructure, Inter-American Development Bank, International, investment, issue 6, Japan, legality, local, Making It magazine, marketing, middlemen, opportunities, packaging, paramilitary, peasant farmers, private sector, Putumayo, quality, security, socio-economic intervention, Spain, subsistence, traffickers, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNODC

From aid dependence to resource revenue

From aid dependence to resource revenue

17 March 2011

A country feature on Timor-Leste, with an exclusive interview with His Excellency President José Ramos-Horta

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agriculture, aid dependence, Asia, capital, cashew nuts, clothing, cocoa, coffee, commodity, Conference, country feature, development, economic, Economist Intelligence Unit, ecotourism, éducation, EITI, eiu, environment, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, fund, furniture, future, government institutions, health care, human resources, income, independence, infrastructure, institutions, International, interview, investment, issue 5, José Ramos-Horta, ldc, LDC-IV, Least Developed Country, Making It, manufacturing, marketing, MDG, militia groups, Millennium Development Goals, nature, peacekeepers, petroleum, population, poverty, president, productive capacity, recovery, resource-derived wealth, revenue, security, social, subsistence, sustainable, Timor-Leste, trade, transport, UN, United Nations, vanilla, violence