3.13.2009

Travels in Uganda: A Carbon Project Audit Up Close -- Part Two

Climate initiative coordinator Julie Baroody continues to recount the details of her recent trip to Uganda, where she served as an official observer of a Rainforest Alliance audit of a carbon project.

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3.4.2009

Travels in Uganda: A Carbon Project Audit Up Close -- Part One

In October 2008, our climate initiative coordinator Julie Baroody traveled to Uganda to serve as an official observer for the Rainforest Alliance’s first audit of a carbon project in Africa, conducted by fellow staff members Jeff Hayward and Joseph Osei.

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2.23.2009

Report from Kenya -- Part Two

Tensie Whelan, Rainforest Alliance president, continues her travelogue about her recent trip to Kenya. Here, she describes her visit to the Rift Valley and Lake Naishava, where she tours local flower farms.

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2.18.2009

Report from Kenya -- Part One

In 2007, the Rainforest Alliance launched its tea certification program in Kenya. The first certified farm was Kericho, an estate in Kenya owned by Unilever that supplies the Lipton and PG Tips brands. Recently, Rainforest Alliance president Tensie Whelan traveled to Kenya to attend a meeting of the Unilever Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Board, visit some of Kenya's stunning national parks and see a few of the country's flower farms.

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11.26.2008

Travels in Ghana -- Part One

In late October, 2008, Rainforest Alliance executive director Tensie Whelan joined Christian Mensah -- an agronomist who recently joined our sustainable agriculture team -- in Ghana to take in the landscape, learn about the state of the cocoa industry and witness, first-hand, the need for reforestation in a country plagued by the effects of unsustainable farming.

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