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Trade Innovations

Trade Innovations

CAN's trade innovations connects small-scale coffee farmer cooperatives, coffee roasters, researcher liaisons, the Santa Cruz Farmer's Market, university dining halls, students and household consumers to create alternative trade models

  • NEW! AgroEco Coffee® Initiative is an innovative partnership for sustainable community development between CAN, researcher liaisons, community partners in coffee growing regions and a U.S. based coffee roaster, Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company. This initiative builds long-term relationships to support farmers in agroecological stewardship, participatory monitoring, and higher prices for their coffee.
  • Coffee from the cooperative in Nicaragua is shipped to Santa Cruz where it is roasted and marketed to consumers

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Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group

Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group [http://www.uvm.edu/~emendez/]

The research and teaching efforts of this group at the University of Vermont focus on developing and applying interdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions among agriculture, livelihoods, and environmental conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes.  Most of this work also uses a Participatory Action Research approach (PAR).

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