Word: ethiopia
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...south when Deng was about 6. His village was destroyed by horsemen, and many of his friends and relatives were killed or enslaved. He escaped. Along with many other boys--the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan--Deng walked hundreds of miles overland to a refugee camp in Ethiopia...
...based charity Oxfam last week accused Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks of blocking Ethiopian efforts to trademark three types of coffee beans in the U.S. Starbucks denies this, but the controversy continues to percolate. What does Ethiopia want? The Ethiopian government applied to trademark its most famous coffee-bean names - Harar, Sidamo and Yirgacheffe - in the U.S. last year. The Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office estimates that controlling the names of the beans could earn Ethiopia an extra $88 million a year. How so? Owning the names, Ethiopia reasons, will enable it to build premium brands (with premium prices) by better...
...folks that produce the things they consume and that we want it to be an ethical relationship,” said Jordan Bar Am ’04, who founded HFTI as an undergraduate and helped to coordinate last night’s event. A coffee farmer from Ethiopia, Tadesse Meskele, said that cooperation among farmers to send their products directly to markets could help raise living standards. “The growers remain poor because of unfair trade. Farmers go barefoot and they don’t have the possibility of sending their children to school...
...tents in its parking lot to cope with the extra patients. But the success of the hospital in Dhaka has not been replicated elsewhere. In Africa, the fight against diarrhea is hampered by the lack of clean water and the infrastructure necessary to ensure public health. In countries like Ethiopia, only 40% of people have access to safe water, and fewer than 1 in 3 has regular access to safe sanitation, which at a minimum means a pit latrine. Most Ethiopians don't make the connection between the way they dispose of human waste and their family's health; instead...
...high profile of other public-health crises. There's much to do; though experts know what interventions can reduce needless deaths, getting them in place is not always easy. There are thousands of villages in places such as Bangladesh's muddy delta and the dry northern expanses of Ethiopia that still lack the infrastructure, education and methods of treatment that would protect their children's lives. To be sure, there is some good news; a recent report by unicef found that global access to safe drinking water rose from 1990 to 2004. But 1.1 billion people still don't have...