Guatemala coffee atlas to fight fake gourmet beans
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ACATENANGO, Guatemala  - Farmers from this lush valley between two Guatemalan volcanoes have made extra cash for years by pretending their coffee is from Antigua, a neighboring region famous for its chocolaty tasting beans.
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The African nation's last rain forests are in danger from both agricultural developers and locals who believe its plants hold pharmacological secrets
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Monsanto Co. MON.N, a  company that has pioneered the development of bioengineered  crops, is pushing hard to recover millions of dollars in lost  revenue in three South American countries where farmers have  sown its wonder seeds without paying royalties.
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GUILDERLAND, NY Socially conscious consumers have made fair trade brews a rapidly growing niche of the coffee market. The beans can now be found on supermarket shelves next to the Folgers and in the espresso at Dunkin&#39; Donuts.
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Some Southern Arizona mountains were placed on a short list of places around the world where biological resources are at risk.
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LOS ANGELES - Starbucks has launched an aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from environmentally friendly farms paying workers a fair wage, chief executive Orin Smith says.
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LONDON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The United States is back at the international  coffee table, and about time since it drinks about a quarter of  world coffee. And about time also because 25 million coffee  growers in developing countries are still reeling from low  prices.
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SAN PEDRO MASAHUAT, El Salvador -- Marta Sonia Ayala hunched over a metal table in a room that resembles a large restaurant kitchen, scooping heaps of a light brown powder into plastic bags. Later, she placed the bags of frijolito -- beans ground into flour -- in a heat-sealing machine, placed colored labels on them and shipped them to 22 stores throughout the country where they would sell for $1.35 a pound.
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Britain-based brewer SABMiller and a number of international rivals are interested in snapping up Colombian brewer Grupo Empresarial Bavaria, a source close to the case revealed.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 21 (IPS) - Each time European Union officials take a coffee  break, there is a reasonable chance that the contents of their  cup will have originated from a plantation where young children  have to undertake gruelling work.
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Coffee lovers are digging deeper into their pockets for their daily fix of the black brew.
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A "barcode" gene that can be used to distinguish between plant species has been identified.
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The United States plans to rejoin the international body that regulates the global coffee trade. Assistant Secretary of State Anthony Wayne will make the formal announcement Wednesday, the State Department said in a statement.
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PARIS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The cancellation of a gold mining contract in  French Guiana has placed the spotlight on another project that is  continuing in Guatemala, at disastrous cost to local people and  the environment.
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LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradication  of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drug  traffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drug  production there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,  Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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A new investigation offers a model for attacking what has become a flood of fake drugs, which threaten to undermine the global fight against malaria.
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David Coallier has an update today on the effort to get PEAR developers all over the world mapped out to a Google map to show their locations - one that's finally been launched.   Over the past weeks we have had many people asking around if it would be possible to have a place to see the pear developers around the world. Well now Christian Weiske and I (With the help of Arnaud Limbourg) have put up a nice little map system on pear.php.net. You can see it at http://pear.php.net/map/   David also links to images of some of the administration panels for the application (one, two, three) and the connection information for a web service (REST) that allows access to all of the data.