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- When Fair Trade is Fools Trade – Meet the farmers who try for 10 x the FT price.
When Patrick, a farmer and collector gathering beans and drying them in the dark about 20km due north of Sambava, saw a bunch of foreigners walk in his small village, the kind old farmer practically had dollar signs in his eyes as he lept to
- The Great Vanilla PR Sales Spin – Why Everybody Tells You Prices Will Go Up (or Down)
This month vanilla prices shot up to $450-500 per kg for October direct from Madagascar, with most sellers of vanilla shifting their prices to cope with the supply shock this week. Most of the large exporters who are our friends, fellows, and foes from Sambava
- Vanilla Prices On The Rise in 2016
The price of Madagascan vanilla surged by nearly 150% last year…Now food industry executives are reporting a fresh rise in prices as supply tightens. Charlie Thuillier, the founder and managing director of the ice-cream brand Oppo, said the cost of the vanilla extract his
- Why Bourbon Vanilla?
Over time we have received a lot of questions about vanilla – from where it grows in Mada to what can it be used for. The most interesting was “Is there any alcohol in it”? Understandable since it has “bourbon” in the name. But it has
