I would like to write an update regarding our Rain Forest Alliance (RFA) certification project in Guatemala. I wrote an article about this initiative a few months ago. Last March, a formal audit group from the FIIT foundation located in Guatemala had the opportunity to visit El Paternal farm to check the compliance of each [...]
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Portland Roasting Recognized in Case Study
Graduate students from Portland State University submitted a case study based on the Portland Roasting business model. It has been ranked first in a preliminary round of the Oikos Case Study Writing Competition 2010. Students focused their research on the Portland Roasting core program — Farm Friendly Direct™. Students took an in-depth look at the [...]
Heading to the SCAA Show
We are preparing for the SCAA annual show held in Anaheim, Calif., next weekend, April 16-18. If you are joining the specialty coffee gathering, please visit us at booth #1701-03. Mark and Marie will take part in the following panels on industry trends and happenings: Measuring our Impact: An Innovative Method to Track Social and [...]
Water, Our Thirsty World
Check out April’s edition of National Geographic. It’s chock-full of evocative (true to form) images of the world’s water sources, from the abundant falls of Iguacu bordering Brazil and Argentina to drought images in Bangladesh. You may flip the pages to The Burden of Thirst, reportage on the millions of women who haul water throughout [...]
