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	<description>Practical Answers to Poverty</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Now mothers and fathers are happy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/now-mothers-and-fathers-are-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Marsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I realised the true meaning of the term, &#8216;thought-provoking&#8217;.
Spending the day with the Awajun tribe, deep in the forest of the San Martin valley in Northern Peru, challenged me, on two levels:
1. Fitness &#8211; no amount of gym classes could have prepared me for the trek from the closest dirt track to the community. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing the coffee tasting test</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/passing-the-coffee-tasting-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara-Jane Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After visiting the coffee farmers it was a trip to the Laboratory to see if their beans got the seal of approval...]]></description>
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		<title>Probably the best coffee in the world</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/probably-the-best-coffee-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/probably-the-best-coffee-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara-Jane Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[berries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food processing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coffee grown in the forest is 'probably' that you can buy. The farmers I met today have been working with Practical Action to make sure their coffee is just that ....]]></description>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need no education?</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/education/we-dont-need-no-education/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/education/we-dont-need-no-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pollard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global learning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Far from it, says a recent report from the DEA on the impact of global learning on public attitudes and behaviours towards international development and sustainability. The report concludes that an education which embraces global issues throughout the curriculum is essential if we want to get the next generation engaged in the fight against poverty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24/7</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/247-2/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/247-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansoor Ali</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charity reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schumacher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ There is a school behind me. Some men and women separating plastic and paper from the waste. They are putting it aside and another group is pressing and making bales of it. They are all very well dressed – in smart and expensive dresses. There is a large sign behind them saying ‘sustainable development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;El cafe de San Martin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/el-cafe-de-san-martin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Marsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Action]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no coffee connoisseur (shameful to admit - I&#8217;m actually more partial to a warm Ribena!), but over the last few days I&#8217;ve developed a new found appreciation for coffee, and the women and men who produce it.

So, fast facts, what have I learnt?
1. Farmers harvest seven crops of coffee each year. It&#8217;s only the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World, meet Normel &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/world-meet-normel/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/world-meet-normel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Marsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Action]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Normel Mendoza. I want you to meet him too.
So, here&#8217;s Normel. He and his wife Flora are coffee farmers, living in the village of Bajos Progreso, Peru (&#8216;remote&#8217; cannot begin to describe their community and neither can &#8216;breathtaking beauty&#8217;).
They have been growing coffee for over a decade but struggling to earn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On our way to Bajos Progreso</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/on-our-way-to-bajos-progreso/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/on-our-way-to-bajos-progreso/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara-Jane Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairtrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tarapoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sara-Jane Brown from our communications team is travelling across Peru to visit Practical Action&#8217;s projects helping poor communities escape from poverty. Today she is on her way to see coffee farmers:

]]></description>
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		<title>Tarapoto, the start of the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/tarapoto1/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/tarapoto1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara-Jane Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairtrade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=1007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sara-Jane Brown from our communication team in the UK is visiting Practical Action's projects with poor communities in Peru. Follow the third installment of her blog as she arrives in Tarapoto:
]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-morning coffee?</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/mid-morning-coffee/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/report/mid-morning-coffee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Marsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take a sip.
Ever thought where, when and how your coffee is produced? Well, perhaps it was grown by farmers in Peru &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s largest exporters of organic coffee.
Today, we are travelling up to Northern Peru, to an area called Tarapoto which sits on the edge of the Amazon basin.
Here, Practical Action is working [...]]]></description>
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