Cultivar

Cultivar con esmero las tierras y heredades, cuidando de la conservación y aumento del ganado.

Correct terminology 2006

The Cultivar project is based in Managua, Nicaragua.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

Overall, the Cultivar project is a very interesting example of technical assistance that addresses three kinds of issues of interest to consumers in Europe and the United States as well as being of concern to farm workers and their families and communities in the three countries - workplace fairness and sanitation, chemical use and fair trade.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

Chiquita and Dole support the Cultivar project in part because it may help them sell their products in Europe, where fruit prices are higher than in the United States.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

The Cultivar project is providing technical assistance to eight banana farms in the Dominican Republic, three melon farms in Honduras and six banana farms in Nicaragua.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

One aspect of the Cultivar project is to train inspectors to make the most of the resources that governments are able to provide.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

At work now to improve farm safety and sanitation in three Latin American countries - the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua - are staff members for a little-known project called Cultivar.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

I talked about the Cultivar project with Dr. Rafael Barrera, who manages it for Social Accountability International.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

The Cultivar project's strategy is to start with improving workplace conditions with SA8000 compliance (which requires sanitary and safe facilities and a living wage), and then - with workers on board and appreciative of the program - to seek the more time-consuming compliance with organic and ethical-trading standards.

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar 2008

Gitche-Manitou: On behalf of Big Tobacc.... err .... the Sacred Cultivar That Has Never Ever Been Shown to Hurt People, Really and Truly, I am appalled at that torrent of falsehoods your predecessor released about second-hand smoke.

My First Press Conference as Surgeon General Anne Johnson 2007