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From the start, the ITC-supported project to improve spice exports from India focused on the poor, particularly indigenous people, and on women. It also built in the flexibility to expand its reach when it became clear that the project was being well received by its participants. The original plan was to involve 350 families on 764 acres of land in a project that would run from 2000 to 2003. One major task was to create the infrastructure for market promotion and project monitoring. Costa do Sauipe is a "quality tourism" resort in the heart of an environmentally protected region of Brazil. Banco do Brazil and ITC signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Jun 2003 to formalize their partnership, enabling ITC to transfer to Banco do Brazil its methodology, "best practices" and tools, by implementing an export-led poverty reduction project in Brazil.
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Reducing Poverty Through Trade
Businesses as different as luxury vacation resorts and spice-growing by peasant farmers can result in export-led poverty reduction. These two projects supported by ITC indicate how a trade-focused approach to sustainable development can increase revenues for poor communities, encourage collaboration at all levels and even maintain traditional culture.
SPICING UP RURAL LIFEIn 2000, India exported organic spices and spice produces worth US$ 290,000. By 2003 exports had increased almost fourfold to US$ 1.13 million. Much of this improvement results from the efforts of the Spices Board India to encourage organic spice farming for export.An ITC workshop on export processing villages in December 1998 triggered the Board's initiative to help rural communities to export organic spices. Th...Voir le contenu complet de ce document
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