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"Fair" Trade Coffee Prospects for "Equitable" Green Economy

This presentation by Ken-ichi Abe from the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan given during the Forests Asia Summit in the discussion forum "Social forestry and sustainable value chains towards a Green Economy in ASEAN" introduces coffee cultivation in East Timor. It explains the agricultural context, the challenges, why it's actually not hard to improve the coffee quality and how that would be actually done.

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