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 Stories About: El Salvador
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Stuck in the Middle with Fuel
As its neighbors back biofuels, Central America gears up for business |
Eliza Barclay |
14 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Driving down either of El Salvador's two principal highways, you're almost sure to end up braking behind a pickup truck that's jammed with people standing shoulder to shoulder. Occasionally these rural taxis are new vehicles, but most are rickety, rusted, and running on antiquated engines and exhaust-spewing diesel. Even though 48 percent of Salvadorans live below t ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, energy, ethanol, Guatemala (all these topics) |
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Better Latte Than Never
Eco-friendly coffee could save El Salvador's dwindling wildlife |
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13 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Better Latte Than Never Eco-friendly coffee could save El Salvador's dwindling wildlife Environmental groups are working to help El Salvador's coffee farmers achieve green certification so that they can survive in a volatile worldwide market -- and the wildlife that finds refuge on their farms can survive as well. The country's native ecosystems have been almost entirely wiped out, and its once-prodigious ... |
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| Topics: business, El Salvador, food and agriculture, news (all these topics) |
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