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		<title>How fair trade coffee is changing lives in Kizi, Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wonder whether buying fair trade coffee makes any difference, read this article in the Guardian newspaper.]]></description>
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		<title>Has fair trade coffee become the new &#8220;gourmet&#8221; coffee?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read this article at fool.com, I didn't know whether to laugh, cry...or think. Here's an excerpt: Consumer Reports recently compared coffees and came up with an interesting result. According to its tasters, Starbucks' (Nasdaq: SBUX) coffee was outdone...]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting piece on fair trade, fair trade coffee and “trading fairly”.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I have been lazy with this blog recently. But I should have an interesting book review up here soon. In the meantime, I did come across an interesting blog entry by Tim Blangger on the Poverty News Blog...]]></description>
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		<title>McDonalds UK to switch to fair trade coffee.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that McDonalds is about to start serving fair trade coffee at all its burger outlets in the UK. The coffee will be supplied by Kraft. I’m no fan of either McDonalds or Kraft, but this move has to...]]></description>
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		<title>The other way to look at fair trade coffee.</title>
		<link>http://www.monkeybuttcoffee.com/2006/12/the-other-way-to-look-at-fair-trade-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I wrote about a recent article in the Economist, which cast doubts on the entire fair trade movement. The economic arguments presented were familiar and predictable. “The market decides”. I don’t think the market decides very...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s easy to argue against Fair Trade.</title>
		<link>http://www.monkeybuttcoffee.com/2006/12/its-easy-to-argue-against-fair-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article in The Economist the author does a fair job of casting doubt on the benefits of fair trade, organic produce and buying local. As always with The Economist, the article is well written and researched. The...]]></description>
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		<title>More from Starbucks: &#8220;What&#8217;s important is what it says about our brand.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline for this post comes from the following quote, taken from an article in Business Week. "What's important is what it says about our brand," said Brad Stevens, Starbuck Corp.'s vice president of U.S. Marketing. The Seattle-based coffee giant...]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks continues to fight Ethiopia over the country’s plan to trademark the names of its coffees.</title>
		<link>http://www.monkeybuttcoffee.com/2006/11/starbucks-continues-to-fight-ethiopia-over-the-country%e2%80%99s-plan-to-trademark-the-names-of-its-coffees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks doesn’t like the fact that Ethiopia plans to trademark the names of its most famous coffees. There is a stunning hypocrisy here, going far beyond just Starbucks and Ethiopia. For decades now Western corporations have been guilty of biopiracy...]]></description>
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		<title>The Coffee Politics Blog.</title>
		<link>http://www.monkeybuttcoffee.com/2006/11/the-coffee-politics-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the Coffee Politics blog. The information there is important, and it is written with feeling..]]></description>
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		<title>Would you buy healthy food from a sick company?</title>
		<link>http://www.monkeybuttcoffee.com/2006/11/would-you-buy-healthy-food-from-a-sick-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.monkeybuttcoffee.com/2006/11/would-you-buy-healthy-food-from-a-sick-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Usborne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline to this post comes, more or less, from an article in Mother Jones by Bill McKibben. What he actually wrote, with Wal-Mart in mind, was, “There’s something gross about buying a healthy carrot from a sick company.” How...]]></description>
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