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DEPARTMENTS Comment
Coffee World Diary
People Plant & Machinery
Shipping & Warehousing Cocoa World ICO
ICCO Profile
FEATURES
US 20 Fair Trade USA’s President & CEO Paul Rice explains why the organisation recently left FLO and what it hopes to achieve
BRAZIL 23 Brazil’s next crop is expected to be a large one, but not quite as large as originally anticipated
EUROPEAN IMPORT FACILITIES
Liffe is believed to be about to introduce new rules for minimum movement-out levels at warehouses holding certified coffee
LATIN AMERICA
Latin American cocoa growers are in recovery mode and production is increasing steadily
CLIMATE CHANGE
Research suggest that carbon stored on coffee farms could offset emissions right along the value chain
TERMINAL MARKETS
Liffe is consulting with industry about delivery limits for commodities such as Robusta coffee and cocoa
CHILD LABOUR
Members of the European Parliament have called for action against child labour in the cocoa industry
COFFEE & COCOA SCIENCE
Dr Peter Baker looks at some of the latest academic publications appearing on the CABI Abstracts database
QUALITY CONTROL
C&CI looks at some of the latest developments in this important area
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COVER Farmers in Darién, Colombia
tend their coffee plants, which are intercropped with rows of tomato plants. (photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT)
Volume 39 Number 1
www.coffeeandcocoa.net
March 2012
LIFFE plans new rules for
commodity contracts
Carbon neutral farmers offset emissions across the value chain
Slow progress towards new International Cocoa Agreement
Fair Trade USA: why we parted company with FLO
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