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Feb 12

One of the world's most progressive thinkers will visit the Annapolis Valley on February 24 to talk about the future of food. 

 
Vandana Shiva, is a physicist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and...
Jan 12

Tens of thousands of children toil in cocoa fields in the Ivory Coast, many against their will, to create the chocolate bars that many of us enjoy.

In a CNN Freedom Project investigation, David McKenzie traveled to the West African country and discovered that despite promises the global chocolate industry made a decade ago to end forced labor, there are still child slaves harvesting...

Jan 12

17 January 2012 -  BBC Mobile

El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes has sought forgiveness for what he called "the worst massacre of civilians in contemporary Latin American history".

In 1981, soldiers killed some 1,000 people, nearly half of them children, in the town of El Mozote.

They had been accused of collaborating with left-wing guerrillas.

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Jan 12

We are planning two trips during the coffee harvest:
Trip 1 - February 15 - 24
Trip 2 - February 27 – March 5

A unique opportunity to visit this most beautiful and peaceful part of southern...