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Fair Trade USA Joins Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative to Help Small …

By on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 | No Comments

 Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, and the Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative (GCQRI), a collaborative research program of the specialty coffee industry, today announce a strategic partnership to provide industry-leading research to help all members of the Fair Trade coffee supply chain face the challenges [...]

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UBC named Canada's first Fair Trade Campus

By on Thursday, May 5th, 2011 | No Comments

There’s something different about the way the University of British Columbia wakes up and smells the coffee in the morning – the steaming caffeine poured into warm mugs across campus is fair trade. UBC just became the first Fair Trade Campus in Canada. The Fair Trade Canada designation follows Vancouver’s recognition as a Fair Trade [...]

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Potential Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) Trade Has 8.23% Downside …

By on Thursday, April 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) closed Tuesday’s trading session at $65.63. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $21.83 and 52-week high of $67.63. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters stock has been showing support around $62.78 and resistance in the $67.16 range. Technical indicators for the stock are . [...]

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Ethiopian Economy Counting on Perks of Coffee Trade

By on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Ethiopian Economy Counting on Perks of Coffee Trade | Africa | English/* Voice of America ®2011 Workers inspect coffee beans in Ethiopia  Some of the world’s finest specialty coffees come from Africa, and now some African countries are looking at ways to make sure the perks of the lucrative coffee trade are not limited to [...]

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Granma: Low coffee harvest figures caused in part by illegal trade

By on Sunday, March 27th, 2011 | No Comments

 Email This Post Outright theft and under-the-table sales to private buyers are major reasons for Cuba’s record-low coffee harvest figures, official daily Granma wrote in an investigative report. The 2009-10 coffee harvest officially yielded a record low of 6,000 tons, forcing the government to import 16,000 tons of coffee last year to meet domestic demand. This [...]

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