Frederick Payton’s AgroFrontera honored at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Conference
April 2009 Our colleagues at CIAT won one of the Changing Climate Change projects awarded by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will use the grant to map forecasts of the impacts of climate change in coffee-growing communities and help smallholder coffee farmers identify, evaluate and implement adaptation strategies. read more
April 2009 Starbucks Launches Farmer Loan Program. Starbucks is expanding its three-year-old Small Farmer Sustainability Initiative (SFSI) by partnering with the Fairtrade Labeling Organization (FLO) and TransFair USA to create a small-scale coffee farmer–loan program. read more
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March 2009 Fine Flavor Summit, Ghana. Don Seville facilitated a fine flavor summit with key players in Ghana and set up a process for field piloting with farmers. About 28 people attended including SFL member John Scharffenberger shown here with cocoa farmer. Read more...
March 2009 SFL and Carbon Markets SFL member Jason Clay, WWF and SFL staffer Daniella Malin attend meeting co-hosted by Packard, Eko Asset Management Partners and Environmental Defense Fund, in California designed to coordinate efforts to get agricultural carbon into the carbon markets beyond the CCX. Outputs include protocol and methodology development for generating quality carbon credits and requirements to gain approval by the Voluntary Carbon Standard, the California Climate Action Reserve. Jason emphasized, "I feel a bit like a salmon swimming up stream in a flood but I'll say it one more time. We're talking about practices. Performance based would mean defining very explicitly methods for quantifying carbon and other GHGs (greenhouse gasses)."
January 1, 2009 SFL joins AIN The Secretariat of the Sustainable Food Lab spun off from Sustainability Institute and joined Ag Innovations Network, based in California. This adds Joseph McIntyre to our expanded team and links Food Lab work to exciting multi-stakeholder projects in California.
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