Articles about coffee and fair trade in Mexico.
Global Warming, Environmental Footprints and Traceability Processes
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Publicado el 20 de Noviembre 2007
According to recent studies released about environmental footprints and climate change, one in six people may eventually suffer from water shortage, up to 100 million may become refugees due to rising water levels, and between 10-100 million may flee their homes due to severe draughts. We are led to believe that by 2050 mankind will ...
Swiss market leader Migros joins UTZ CERTIFIED
Leer artículo | Publicado el 25 de Junio 2007
Switzerland, 25 June 2007 - The nr. 1 Swiss retailer Migros announced its cooperation with the world wide certification scheme UTZ CERTIFIED. The largest coffee supplier in Switzerland has a total production of over 11,000 MT annually and will be the first company in Switzerland to offer products with the UTZ CERTIFIED logo from September ...
Returning to the roots of the organic ideal: Local markets and participatory certification in Mexico
Leer artículo | Publicado el 4 de Abril 2007
The amount of organic production in Mexico has been increasing rapidly over the past several years, and today over 80 000 producers farm organically on over 300 000 hectares of land. The vast majority of this production is focused on monocrop farming of export goods " particularly coffee, but also cacao, coconut, and other fruits ...
Is Venezuela Heading Towards Prout?
Leer artículo | Publicado el 3 de Diciembre 2006
Today there are countless movements and struggles which are fighting for the creation of a more just, sustainable, and human society, guaranteeing safety and individual freedom. Of all these, many progressive people around the world see the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela as the one with the greatest possibility to transform social reality. Prout (Progressive Utilization ...
Mexico as supplier of organic products in the global market
Leer artículo | Publicado el 23 de Julio 2006
The role of Mexico as a supplier of organic products in the global market is limited to three categories : tropical products such as coffee, cacao, mango, bananas, vanilla, etc., which are not cultivated in developed countries, winter vegetables, due to climatic conditions where countries with temperate climes are deficient in the production of said, ...
Global Organic Production
Leer artículo | Publicado el 23 de Julio 2006
The dynamic and lucrative Organic food industry has stimulated much controversy between conventional and organic agriculture. Even though the debate has existed since the nineteen-twenties, the nineteen-seventies ushered in the standards for its production, but it wasn't until the nineteen-nineties that organics' took off. In the last ten years of the last century more than ...
Organic certification in Mexico: some perspectives
Leer artículo | Publicado el 23 de Julio 2006
This article expresses the opinion of a diverse group of participants directly related to the topic ofproduction, certification and the commercialization of organic products in Mexico. Said opinions were expressed in the chronicle Red Morelos, by Areli Carreón. Ecological Market "Ocelotl" For us the Ecological Market "Ocelotl" of Xalapa, Veracruz which was started by Indigenous ...
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: The Fair Trade Movement, Mexican Coffee Producers and a European NGO Coalition
Leer artículo | Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005
This paper explores the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. It concerns the way solidarity relations between northern social movements and southern social movements are carried out, the extent they can ...
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: Introduction
Leer artículo | Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005
This paper explores the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. It concerns the way solidarity relations between northern social movements and southern social movements are carried out, the extent they can ...
Transnational Solidarity Movements and the Intangible Strategies
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The two main theories concerning Transnational Social Movements are the Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) and to a less extent the New Social Movements (NSM’s) Theory. It seems that both the RM and NSMs theories appear to have been made to suit specific types of social mobilisation. NSMs theory, which attempts to supersede class based analysis, ...
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