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Ghana cocoa farmers able to receive premium payments by mobile phone
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GHANA – Cargill has made its first-ever sustainable premium payment by electronic transfer to cocoa farmers in Ghana. Just over 10,000 farmers are benefiting...
Ethiopian Women’s Coffees featured at World of Coffee Budapest
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GENEVA, Switzerland – Two cupping sessions at the World of Coffee event in Budapest will feature coffees from representatives of the Ethiopian Women in Coffee association (EWiC), including cup quality competition winners.
New project announced to empower female coffee farmers in Colombia
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BOGOTA, Colombia – The Coca-Cola Foundation, TechnoServe and the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) announced yesterday they will work together to help 11,000 female coffee farmers in Colombia’s Antioquia region access important training, agricultural information and services.
Starbucks and USAID empower thousands of Colombian coffee farmer
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SEATTLE, U.S. – Coffee farmers in Colombia faced challenges maintaining their crops during the country’s 50-year civil war. An alliance between Starbucks and the U.S. Embassy, through its Agency for International Development (USAID) is now helping farmers refocus on their crops with an emphasis on coffee quality.
Train the Trainers at one of the best Agricultural Universities in the world
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil – The first Train the Trainers on the Coffee Sustainability Curriculum (CSC) of 2017 in Brazil was hosted by ESALQ (College...
Global partnership to improve women’s safety in the tea industry
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UN Women and Unilever announce a partnership to develop an evidence-based and human rights-based “Intervention Programme to inform the development of a Global Framework...
Cocoa industry could lose a generation of growers, farmer warns
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Unless the international cocoa industry does more to involve farmers it will risk losing a generation of cocoa growers, Fairtrade farmer Portin Bley from Ivory Cooast told the London Chocolate Forum ...
Barry Callebaut and Prova to launch joint project empowering vanilla farmers
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ZURICH, Switzerland - Barry Callebaut, the world's leading producer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa, and Prova, one of the world's premier manufacturers of vanilla...
Barista Connect: A female perspective on coffee
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More than 60 women took part to Barista Connect (Square Miles Coffee Roasters - London, September 9-11), the event dedicated to improving equality by empowering and inspiring ...
Cocoa Life empowers women to be achievers
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AMPOSASO, Ghana - Despite the many commitments made to ensure equal opportunities for all human beings, women are still behind men due to certain...