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Protection of agri-food names in Africa, Sidama Coffee is among 19 covered products

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The European Commission signed, on 26 November, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, a cooperation agreement with the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) to improve the protection of traditional agricultural products (geographical indications or GIs) in Africa. This will involve, among other matters, promoting the GI legal framework, informing producers and other stakeholders and enhancing the public’s awareness of GIs and their potential for African producers.  The agreement has a non-legally binding status and covers 19 product names: Zanzibar cloves (clous de girofles) from Tanzania, Rift Valley coffee from Tanzania, Sidamo coffee from Ethiopia, Rooibos from South Africa, Karoo lamb from South Africa, Beurre de karité du plateau Massif from Burkina Faso, Miel blanc d’Oku from Cameroon, Poivre blanc de Penja from Cameroon, Shama shea butter from Ghana, Ghana fine flavour cocoa, Café Diama from Guinea, Rwanda mountain coffee, Mount Kenya roses from Kenya, Ngoro Ngoro

Readers chose the D.C. area’s best coffee shop. H Street’s Sidamo which roasts its own beans is among the best

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Now that the scientific world is  finally confirming what coffee drinkers always knew  — that it’s okay to drink as much coffee as you like — allegiance to a single purveyor seems like a moot point. Yet as of this writing, nearly 1,000 votes poured in for last week’s reader poll to name  the area’s best coffee shop . The winner? With more than a quarter of the votes, it was  Blind Dog Cafe . The Shaw cubbyhole, which occupies Darnell’s Bar during daytime hours, opened in February and has since won loyalists with its PT’s coffee, warm pimento-cheese-and-egg croissant sandwiches and shabby-chic decor. •  What’s the best coffee shop in the D.C. area? Peregrine Espresso , last year’s winner  Northside Social , and  Tryst  also fared well, along with  Big Bear Cafe  and the new  Kafe Bohem . Though our poll put forth 17 options, including selections from our 2011 list, readers wrote in to name a few favorites they felt were robbed. Among them: Alexandria’s brilli

Bolla Market Brews Up Organic, Fair Trade and Bird Friendly Coffee

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Along with daily choices of light and dark roasts, Bolla Market coffees will include quarterly limited-time offerings starting with a pumpkin spice holiday flavor to be followed by single origin coffees such as Guatemala Huehuetenango and Ethiopia Natural Sidamo.  The retailer has become one of the largest convenience store chains to provide only organic, Fair Trade and Bird Friendly shade-grown coffee in the United States. ​NEW YORK CITY – Bolla Market, the New York area’s chain of high-end convenience stores, announced it has switched to only top-quality organic, Fair Trade and Bird Friendly® specialty coffee for all its coffee offerings. Bolla Gourmet Organic Coffee will be sold at the company’s 21 locations recently reopened post-Hurricane Sandy and located from Brooklyn to Riverhead on Long Island,as well as on Staten Island. In making the switch, the company will become one of the largest convenience store chains to provide only organic, Fair Trade, and Bird F

Tree species diversity, topsoil conditions and arbuscular mycorrhizal association in the Sidama traditional agroforestry land use, southern Ethiopia

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Zebene ,  Asfaw  (2003).  Tree species diversity, topsoil conditions and  arbuscular   mycorrhizal  association in the Sidama traditional agroforestry land use, southern Ethiopia.  Diss. ( sammanfattning /summary) Uppsala :   Sveriges   lantbruksuniv .,  Acta   Universitatis   agriculturae   Sueciae .  Silvestria , 1401- 6230 ;  263  ISBN 91-576-6347-5  [Doctoral thesis] Abstract Sidama farmers cultivate trees to meet their food, wood, fodder and other service needs. Tree cultivation intensity has increased during the past three decades. Significant positive correlation was found between farm size and number of species, and number of stems per farm. The number of tree species per farm averaged 16 and ranged from 4 to 28. Within farms, about ten different field types were identified of which  enset  fields contain the highest number of species. Wealthy households have more tree species than poor households. In general the largest number of tree species, the large

It is not population growth alone but the Deprivation of opportunities and Deterioration of Human Capital : alarming famine bells in Sidama land.

Mulugeta Daye. Introduction For Malthusian apologists and those incapable leaders to feed their people, Population growth is the main  reason to blame for famine causation. The assumed linkage among famine, starvation, and mass mortality in both popular conceptions and technical definitions stems directly from the debate started by Malthus more than two centuries ago. Yet as more nuanced analyses have recently demonstrated, famine can occur in varying degrees of severity well before critical food shortages become evident. For example, villagers in Sudan distinguish a “famine that kills” from a range of other food crises experienced at the household level that may cause hunger and destitution but not necessarily lead to death (de Waal 2004). This means without creating window of opportunities to human capital building through, education, health facilities, fair job opportunities, population growth may contribute to pressure on available livelihood assets and opportunities