For people who believe in products Produced in Country of Origin (PICO)
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What is PICO?
This community is for everyone interested in local end-products (coffee, choclat, chairs, etcetera). Including the producers themselves, researchers and the consumers! This is our Beta version, but please contribute to help create this all-chain community!
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Accusations of Fair Trade Lite
If you’re like most Americans, you have just a vague idea of what fair trade means (i.e. something “good”). Try to find out any more, and you’ll be bombarded with all sortsa crazy info, from how fair trade isn’t really fair to how some companies are going over and above than fair trade to how Starbucks is the fairest of them all to how big corps are fucking up fair trade.
You can catch up on those debate… Continue
Posted by Guest on August 18, 2008 at 1:30pm
WeBuyItGreen: promoting green living and fair trade
This is the third article in a five-part series that compares fair trade coffee, direct trade coffee, and Starbucks' C.A.F.E. program. The first article in the series, Why Do We Need Fair Trade Coffee?, explained how conditions in the traditional coffee industry gave rise to fair trade coffee. The second article, Fair Trade Coffee, explained how fair trade differs from the traditional coffee market. It also addressed several criticisms of f… Continue
Posted by Guest on August 15, 2008 at 1:31pm
Traditional Aid or Aid-by-Trade?
Posted by Maarten on June 24, 2008 at 1:01pm
Forum
About chocolate - where can I get the real bean - without the nonsense of added sugar and milk powder. 3 Replies
Started by Pieter. Last reply by Bastiaan May 9.
Ananda Chocolate
Started by Bastiaan May 9.
Where can I buy producs of local origin?
Started by Maarten Jun. 15, 2008.
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Sustainable Choclat
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Indian Coffee Ceremony
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Cooking with Quinoa
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Making Choclat in Quito
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Suelo Choclat
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Morning Coffee
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RSS Sustainable Trade
Losing the War on Humor: Tom Friedman Trashes Cap n' <b>Trade</b>, Then <b>...</b>
NYT: “Americans will be willing to pay a tax for their children to be less threatened, breathe cleaner air and live in a more sustainable world with a stronger America. They are much less likely to support a firm in London trading ...<b>Sustainable</b> packaging to become brand loyalty issue for <b>...</b>
“Sustainable packaging has the potential to become the new breakthrough consumer issue of its time, in the same way as organic food or fair-trade products a decade or so previously,” Matthew Adams, Consumer Analyst at Datamonitor and ...Rid Australia of Bad Pants! Fair <b>Trade</b> Organic Underwear Giveaway
Bring in one of your non-fair trade and non-organic pairs of underpants – a Bad Pant;. Feed it to the Panteater, our mutated “Bad- pant eating” Anteater. Buy a pair of our 100% Fairtrade organic cotton, Good Pants! This campaign marks the 4th anniversary of the Make ... The World's biggest pants amnesty unites 16 countries, tens of thousands of people and 10000 farmers. Source: Zazie Tolmer Pants to Poverty Australia Campaign. Tags: Pants to Poverty, sustainable fashion ...Generic Fairtrade <b>Trade</b> Standards: Guidelines for Certifying Fair <b>...</b>
Part of the purpose of the contracts is to build relationships between buyers and sellers so that sustainable, dependable trade continues into the future. Buyers are more invested in seller and producer living conditions through these ...<b>Trade</b> and Climate Change - Asiaing.com: Free eBooks, Free <b>...</b>
It presents key features in the design and implementation of these policies, in order to draw a clearer picture of their overall effect and potential impact on environmental protection, sustainable development and trade. ...About
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