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Bangkok on a budget travel guide
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February 22, 2010
With narrow streets and incredible contrasts, Bangkok has become a highly recommended destination to get to know the Asian continent on a budget. The immensity of its flea markets, the importance of its canals and the drastic contrast between the modern and business area with the poorest neighborhoods make the capital of Thailand a ...
The therapeutic action of Dermune cream on dermatitis, lichen planus, and pustulous psoriasis
Read article | July 15, 2009
A new active principle showing effectiveness when applied over unhealthy skin in cases of psoriasis, dermatitis and lichen planus is presented. The principle has been applied during a large period of about 10 years. We compare the results obtained with the ones produced by control patients treated using current medications. Confidence statistical methods were ...
Global Warming, Environmental Footprints and Traceability Processes
Read article | November 20, 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
Read article | June 25, 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
Read article | April 4, 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?
Read article | December 3, 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
Read article | July 23, 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
Read article | July 23, 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
Read article | July 23, 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
Read article | May 31, 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 ...
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