By Kelsie Evans, Chocolate Products Coordinator As you may have heard, we were fortunate to have two visitors from CONACADO cacao co-op in the Dominican Republic visiting for almost a week: Basilio Almonte de los Santos, an agronomist at CONACADO, and Ramon Matias Frias Gonzalez, a cacao farmer, member of CONACADO’s Bloque 9, and Secretary [...]
Archive for March, 2010
The People Behind Your Chocolate: A Small Farmer Tour
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Guatemalan Heroes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Asociacion Chajulense, small farmer coffee co-operative on March 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Last week, a group of us visited one of Equal Exchange’s coffee farmer partners in Chajul, Guatemala in the Department of Quiche. The following 6-minute video was made by Jeanie Wells, Co-operative Trade Specialist, following the trip.
People Behind Your Chocolate: A Small Farmer Tour
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Equal Exchange is proud to sponsor two visitors from CONACADO co-operative in the Dominican Republic, the farmers who grow the cacao in your Equal Exchange chocolate bars and cocoa. See our schedule below for events in your neighborhood: Friday March 19 Equal Exchange Café 226 Causeway St (by the North Station T Stop) Boston, MA [...]
Tragedy during trip to Uganda
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
By Thomas Lussier, Lead Coffee Roaster Mulembe. My name is Thomas Lussier and I am the Lead Coffee Roaster at Equal Exchange. Last week Beth Ann Caspersen (Quality Control Manager) and I went to Uganda to visit the Gumutindo Co-operative. Since my years as a barista I have had a love for African coffees, so [...]
Remembering Nicaragua
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
By Beth Ann Caspersen, Quality Control Manager My first experience in coffee was on an Equal Exchange delegation to visit coffee farmers in El Salvador in 1994. That trip changed my life and little did I know then, at the age of 20, the impact it would have on me and how it would shape [...]
GMO Contamination of Maize: Crime Against Humanity?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged GMO Maize, La Via Campesina, Monsanto on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PRESS RELEASE La Via Campesina North America Inauguration of “Transgenic contamination of maize: crime against humanity?” First public hearing to prepare the presentation of the GM Maize case before international courts La Via Campesina North America Region Red en Defensa del Maíz (Network in Defense of Maize, Mexico) Asamblea Nacional de Afectados Ambientales (Assembly of [...]
Keep Organics Safe from GMOS – Two Days Left to Sign the Petition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged GMO alfalfa, organics industry on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear Friends, On February 19th, we asked you to please let the USDA know that you oppose the deregulation of genetically engineered pasture which could result in the permanent contamination of organic grazing fields, thereby allowing GMO alfalfa into the country’s food supply.
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