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		<title>interrupcion* Social Report 2010 &#8211; Fair Trade Blueberry Supply Chain, Argentina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fair Trade Premiums
 
During 2010 we continued to generate significant resources and to facilitate worker social &#38; community initiatives through the allocation of fair trade premiums.
We have found a great opportunity to bring information, know-how, best practices, and technology to multiple producer groups. Growing producer involvement has increased efficiency and economies of scale creating better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/interrupcion-social-report-2010-fair-trade-blueberry-supply-chain-argentina/</link>
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		<title>We are* what we* eat.  Are we healthy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ARTICLE: Good for you?  Choose veggies that are pesticide-free
Buffalo News, June 14th, 2010, By Charity Vogel / News Staff Reporter
If you&#8217;ve ever sliced a fruit or mashed a vegetable for a growing kid, you&#8217;ve no doubt had this thought:
This food is good for this child.
But is that really true?
To be sure, fruits and vegetables are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/certification/we-are-what-we-eat-are-we-healthy/</link>
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		<title>How can Fair Trade enable more Food Security??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food prices to rise by up to 40% over next decade, UN report warns
Growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production will send prices soaring, according to the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Katie Allen
guardian.co.uk,	 Tuesday 15 June 2010 13.02 BST
Food prices are set to rise as much as 40% over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/how-can-fair-trade-enable-more-food-security/</link>
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		<title>Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[www.foodforethought.net
Editor’s Note: The National Indigenous Campesino Movement of Argentina is in a desperate fight against an impoverishing agricultural system. Monoculture production, especially of soy has had a profound effect on farmers. Land consolidation has forced thousands of farmers off the land. Violence against campesinos is happening all too often. Mechanized production has resulted in high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/argentina-disappearing-farmers-disappearing-food/</link>
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		<title>Our Chilean blueberry growers reach out to fellow quake victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday and Friday groups from our partner farm Entrerios traveled to the hard-hit regions of Chanco and Mocha Island to deliver much-needed relief supplies. Below Jorge Bawlitza, managing director of our partner farm Entrerios, continues his account of the earthquake&#8217;s aftermath and describes the relief efforts in Chanco, and Roland Heis gives an account [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/our-blueberry-growers-reach-out-to-help-victims-of-earthquake/</link>
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		<title>First-hand account of earthquake from our blueberry growers in Chile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jorge Bawlitza]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/quake-update-from-our-blueberry-growers-in-chile/</link>
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		<title>The Chile Earthquake and how Fair Trade can help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard about the devastating earthquake that hit Chile on Saturday.It is a terrible human tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with all the people of Chile as they try to piece back together their lives, communities, and businesses. The massive 8.8 earthquake has hit growing areas from region V to IX [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/the-chile-earthquake-and-how-fair-trade-can-help/</link>
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		<title>Discovery Islands Organics Fair Trade Certified by IMO!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEINFELDEN, Switzerland The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) issued a Fair for Life Fair Trade Certification to a locally-owned Canadian independent distributor of organic produce, Discovery Islands Organics Ltd. Fair for Life was developed as an alternative Fair Trade Certification Program by the Swiss Bio-Foundation, in cooperation with IMO, in 2006.
Fair for Life Social &#38; Fair [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/fair-trade/discovery-islands-organics-fair-trade-certified-by-imo/</link>
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		<title>The traceability trend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

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 			    Three decades ago, conventional wisdom and conventional food producers assumed that customers cared only about cheap and convenient food. The future they envisioned was based upon generic food plain white boxes with plain black labels proclaiming: corn flakes,!: soda crackers! and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/produce/the-traceability-trend/</link>
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		<title>Just back from the US&#8217;s largest produce conference &#8211; the PMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Produce industry faces changed world after recession

                  Published on 10/04/2009 09:00am                  By          [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com/blog/participation/just-back-from-the-uss-largest-produce-conference-the-pma/</link>
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