Success Story: Rwandan Farmers Coffee | Clinton Hunter Development Initiative | What We Do | William J. Clinton Foundation

Success Story: Rwandan Farmers Coffee | Clinton Hunter Development Initiative | What We Do | William J. Clinton Foundation.

Today, Rwandan coffee farmers’ revenues are continuing to increase, and consumers in Europe are enjoying the delicious Rwandan coffee. To expand this success, CHDI is working in 2008 to facilitate Rwandan Farmers coffee sales to retailers in the United States and to apply a similar approach to other crops and products in Rwanda and Malawi.

~ by werievents on November 10, 2009.

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Environmental Protection News

MACTEC Wins $3.1 M Contract for U.S. Route 460 Work
Cleantech Open Announces 2009 Winners
A daylong festival of cleantech innovation, entrepreneurship and policy culminated in the award of the grand prize of $250,000 to EcoFactor.
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PLANET SHED

The Color of Cleanup
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Coral Reefs Could be Moneymakers … If They Weren't Dying
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Stimulus Water Success Greatly Exaggerated?
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A Sea of Change for Island Nations
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World Economic Forum – Latest Stories

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Australian Graphic Design Association: 2008 Biennial National Awards Exhibition
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Wine Australia Master Class: Landmark Australia & Regional Heroes (Las Vegas)
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Aus University Alumni Film Screening and Alumni Reception
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Transformational Flight
Aus American Leadership Dialogue (AALD)
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FUTURE OF ENGINEERING

Remote Control Not Needed - Control Your TV With Hands
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Eat Silk: 'Edible Optics' Can Save Your Life
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Top UN official stresses academia's role in solving global problems
A top United Nations official today called for a new culture of "intellectual social responsibility" to take education beyond the classroom to the search for real solutions to real problems, with the academic and educational sectors creating and sharing knowledge to help realise UN objectives and goals.
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Broadcasters attending the United Nations-backed fourth World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF 4) have called for sustained and concrete global action to address the murder of journalists in peacetime and in war.
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The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the murder of Mexican journalist Vladimir Antuna García, and called on authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
UN official lauds role of sport in European Union development programmes
A senior United Nations official today praised the European Commission for its use of sport in bringing together diverse communities within the continent's geo-political bloc, as well as helping people in poor countries.

National Geographic News

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Blue "Crab," Sun Tsunami, More
Dive into the heart of the Crab Nebula, see what's left of a "cannibal" galaxy's prey, ride a 62,000-mile-high wave on the sun, and more in the week's best space pictures.
"Nazi Twins" a Myth: Mengele Not Behind Brazil Boom?
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was likely behind the astonishing number of blonde twins in a remote Brazilian town, recent reports said. But a new study says it was just genetics acting naturally.
Martian "Lake Michigan" Filled Crater, Minerals Hint
A "bathtub ring" of minerals inside Columbus crater makes the basin the best place yet to study the chemistry of so-called fossil lakes on Mars, researchers say.

U.S. Navy News Top Stories

Petty Officer Advancement Results on Schedule for Release
The cycle 204 results of Navy active duty advancement for E-4, E-5 and E -6 Sailors are expected after the Thanksgiving holiday break.
Commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command Visits U.S. 5th Fleet Sailors
The commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command took time from his tour of the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Operations on Nov. 25 to meet with Sailors in Bahrain.
U.S. Fleet Forces Commander Calls Sailors in Horn of Africa 'Cutting Edge'
The commander of U.S. Fleet Forces (USFF) Command addressed Sailors serving as individual augmentees (IA) and in global war on terror support assignments (GSA) at Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa Nov. 24.

U.S. Navy

November: A Time to Celebrate, Commemorate first Americans
November has been proclaimed National Native American Heritage Month by President Barack Obama.
Bataan Celebrates Thanksgiving
Nearly 2,500 Sailors aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) and embarked Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday Nov. 26 on their way home from a seven—month deployment.
U.S. Navy, Army Work Together to Provide Water for Iraqis
Today at Camp Bucca, Iraq, more than one hundred Iraqis and Americans celebrated the grand opening of water distribution and waste collection points for the citizens of Safwan and Umm Qasr, Iraq.

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