A Little Perspective on the Scope of the Problem
When we learned more than two years ago that Brazil’s government had cited 15 coffee farms for profiting from modern slavery, we asked our partner Repórter Brasil to help us understand whether those...
View ArticleBrazil’s Fight Against Modern Slavery
Brazil’s fight against modern slavery has been held up as an example by labor rights advocates from Free the Slaves to the U.S. Department of Labor to the UN’s International Labor Organization. Its...
View ArticleBrazil’s “Transparency List”
Earlier this year I visited with Rosa Maria Campos in Brasilia. She leads the union of labor inspectors who visit factories and farms all over Brazil as part of the country’s fight against...
View ArticleThe National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labor
On Tuesday, I explained here that Brazil gets high marks for enlisting businesses in the country’s campaign to eradicate modern slavery. Yesterday I profiled in some detail one of the two instruments...
View ArticleFinal Thoughts (For Now) on Modern Slavery in the Coffeelands
For more than a week I have been writing here about Brazil’s extraordinary effort to eradicate modern slavery, and how that effort relates to the country’s coffee sector. Today is the eighth, final,...
View ArticleAnalyze This: Getting to Know Soils in the Coffeelands
*Pedro Armengol on his farm in La Pita, San Ramón, Nicaragua. Photo by Oscar Leiva/Silverlight. A farmer must know his or her soil. I mean, really know it: what lives in it (bacteria, fungi, protozoa,...
View ArticleThe SCAA Event: Annual Coffeelands Preview
In less than one month the gavel will sound to open The SCAA Event. That means it’s time for the annual Coffeelands preview of The Event’s best “origin content.” In my 2012 SCAA preview post, I...
View ArticleIt’s all about CEC, You See
This is a guest post by Hannah Francis, a Fulbright Scholar working with CRS’ Blue Harvest team in El Salvador this year. Hannah is a soil scientist helping analyze research data from hundreds of...
View ArticleA new approach to working on Price Risk Management
If you have been following us in this space, you know that one of the topics that has been at the front of my mind has been Price Risk Management (PRM). PRM refers to a set of strategies and...
View ArticleMatchmaking at the SCA Expo
It’s Spring again… Green is starting to appear in the northern latitudes, the NBA playoffs are just around the corner, you realize that you haven’t filed your taxes yet, and the annual Specialty Coffee...
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