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February 21, 2012 Solidaridad West Africa training partner in Cargill's Sustainable Cocoa Program in Ghana

Solidaridad West Africa is training partner for the Cargill Sustainable Cocoa program that aims to train 15,000 cocoa farmers and support cocoa farming communities in the Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana.
January 23, 2012 Interview with Nico Roozen by Bloomberg

Nico Roozen, Solidaridad Network's executive director, was interviewed by Simon Clark and Heather Walsh of Bloomberg. The article is about about Fair Trade, its history, its effects and its development on the world market.
October 26, 2011 Ministry of Foreign Affairs invests in Solidaridad’s producer programme

For the next four years the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is providing financial support to Solidaridad’s work with the business community to make production chains more sustainable. Solidaridad’s existing programmes in the global cultivation, trade and processing of soy, palm oil, sugar and cotton are being expanded and a new programme will be developed in the livestock sector.
October 17, 2011 ProCotton expansion in East Africa

Through a financial contribution and collaboration with the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), Solidaridad and Rabobank Foundation have made a start to expand the ProCotton Program in Tanzania and Zambia.
September 27, 2011 Open letter to Solidar: How fair trade can learn from Nespresso

Nico Roozen, executive director of the Solidaridad network, wrote an open letter to the Solidar NGO network about their campaign against Nespresso. Roozen argues the fair trade movement, including Solidar and Solidaridad, should learn from initiatives like Nespresso instead of attacking it.
September 20, 2011 Hindustan Unilever Limited and Solidaridad start smallholder tea pilots

Hindustan Unilever and Solidaridad South and Southeast Asia signed a joint statement in which they recognize the need for sustainability solutions for smallholder tea farmers in India, lay down a joined vision and pronounce the start of two pilot projects in Assam.
June 8, 2011 Dutch food & feed industry buys first 85,000 tons of responsibly produced soy

After years of preparation the first certification of RTRS soy in Brasil has become a reality. The first certificates are bought by a consortium of Dutch food and feed industry. This can help small-scale soy farmers in Latin America, India and China to use smart and sustainable agricultural practices.
June 6, 2011 Solidaridad Network Annual Report 2010: Insufficient supply of sustainable produced goods

Solidaridad presents it's Annual Report 2010. "Now that sustainability has become a mainstream ambition in the corporate sector, the task is to ensure a sufficient supply of sustainably produced goods. Progress is no longer constrained by the level of demand, but by the level of supply..." Nico Roozen.