News

• 01.
  

  Title: Agroamerica implements the Clean Beaches

  Guatemala, April 2013. Agroamerica along with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and the Independent Association of Banana Producers -APIB- (for its initials in Spanish) is implementing a recycli..

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• 02.
  

  Title: Agroamerica will have the third worker's Cooperative to benefit its employees.

  Guatemala, March 2013. The construction of the offices and store of "Mi Gente" Cooperative at Agroamerica farms started this month and is expected to be completed by May, benefiting 400 members. Employees a..

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• 03.
  

  Title: On International Women's day, The Minister of Labor recognizes Agroamerica's employee with "Work Excellence Award".

  Guatemala, March 2013. Teresa de Jesus Aguilar, Agroamerica's employee from an Escuintla packing plant was selected this year by the Ministry of Labor in Guatemala (MINITRAB) to receive a recognition for work ..

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• 04.
  

  Title: Agroamerica?s staff engaged in volunteer work.

  Guatemala, February 2013, Agroamerica's main office staff visited "Camino Seguro" (Safe Passage) for a volunteer work. Camino Seguro is an organization that brings hope, education and opportunities to young peo..

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• 05.
  

  Title: Agroamerica shares its good environmental practices with Cementos Progreso.

  Guatemala, February 13, 2013. Personnel from the environmental department of Cementos Progreso -CEMPRO- visited the water reservoir of Agroamerica in order to implement it in their operation. Through this reser..

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• 06.
  

  Title: Anthropologists from the University of Colorado conducted a study for AGROAMERICA'S Center for Human Development.

  Guatemala, february 2013. In order to understand the social and cultural context of the region in the communities near Agroamerica's operations, eleven anthropology students from the University of Colorado cond..

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• 07.
  

  Title: Agroamerica donated seven thousand bananas to schools for their refreshments snacks.

  Guatemala, February 2013. Agroamerica donated seven thousand bananas for schools refreshments snacks, for the rural communities of San Jose Mogollon and El Jabali in Nueva Concepcion, Escuintla. Over one thousa..

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• 08.
  

  Title: Agroamerica fights poverty and malnutrition in Guatemala through the Food Bank

  Guatemala, January, 2013. Agroamerica as part of its Social Corporate Responsibility Program has joined the Food Bank of Guatemala -BAG-(for its initials in Spanish) to distribute food in the Department of Quet..

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• 09.
  

  Title: The Agroamerica Credit Union "Mi Gente" benefits from the visit of the Credit and Savings Union San Jose Obrero

  Guatemala, January, 2013. The Agroamerica Savings and Credit Union "Mi Gente", promotes the welfare and improvement of living conditions of the associated workers and their families on the south coast of the co..

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• 10.
  

  Title: Agroamerica benefited more than 20,000 malnourished families

  Guatemala, January 2013. Agroamerica, in partnership with the Guatemalan Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition -SESAN- (for its initials in Spanish), carried out the "Nutritional Reinforcement with Banana..

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• 11.
  

  Title: Agroamerica received the Award for Productivity and Competitiveness "Ricardo Castillo Sinibaldi 2012"

  Guatemala, December 2012. Agroamerica, received the annual Award for Productivity and Competitiveness "Ricardo Castillo Sinibaldi 2012" in recognition of its work and effort to create a world class company, tha..

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• 12.
  

  Title: Agroamerica participates in Corporate Social Responsibility-CSR- activities at the national level

  Guatemala, December 2012. Agroamerica participates in Corporate Social Responsibility activities, organized by the Canadian Embassy and CentraRSE, in order to share CSR projects of the company, learn from other..

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• 13.
  

  Title: Agroamerica Contributes to the Reconstruction of Two Schools in San Marcos, After Last Week

  Guatemala, November 2012. On November 7, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Guatemala, killing 52 people, 40 in the department of San Marcos and 11 in the department of Quetzaltenango, region where a large part ..

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• 14.
  

  Title: Agroamerica trains central office personnel to respond and evacuate in case of earthquake or fire.

  Guatemala, November 2012. Last Friday, in the central office of Agroamérica, a course on how to respond and evacuate in case of earthquake or fires was given to a group of employees that will work as leaders in..

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• 15.
  

  Title: Agroamerica will create a Human Development Center in the area of the trifinio, in the country

  Guatemala, November 2012. Agroamérica has begun the process of creating a Human Development Center-CDH- (for its initials in Spanish) in the southwestern part of Guatemala, region where a high number of the com..

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• 16.
  

  Title: Agroamerica participated in the international conference "Towards Corporate Social Responsibility along supply chains", in Prague

  Guatemala, November 2012. Bernardo Roehrs, director of Agroamerica's Corporate Affairs, participated in the conference "Towards Corporate Social Responsibility along the supply chain: How and why should compani..

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• 17.
  

  Title: Agroamerica workers and community leaders from Escuintla are being trained to "Respond to Natural Disasters"

  Guatemala, November 2012. Together, 35 employees of the Agroamerica farms and more than one hundred leaders of the neighboring communities received training for "response and evacuation in case of natural disas..

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• 18.
  

  Title: Agroamérica donated bananas to the Sugar Race in Escuintla

  Guatemala, October 2012. Last Sunday, Agroamérica supported the Sugar Race in their "Silver Anniversary", organized by the Association of Sugar Technicians of Guatemala, donating bananas for all runners who pa..

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• 19.
  

  Title: BE AWARE OF B6: Banana Nutrient Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Rates

  October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month -a time to promote education about the healthy habits that can help women lower their risk and overcome the disease. Ample research backs the protective pot..

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• 20.
  

  Title: Agroamerica benefited more than 500 people in Retalhuleu and San Marcos with medical care, test and medicines.

  Guatemala, October 2012. Agroamerica in partnership with Fundación Santa Teresa de Ávila y Rene and the health centers of the villages, last week conducted two medical consult days in village La Blanquita of th..

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• 21.
  

  Title: Agroamerica carries out an ophthalmology consult day for employees

  Guatemala, September 2012. More than 50 employees from Agroamerica had free eye exams in the office. Agroamerica cares about the health of their workers and that is why they organized an eye exam day in the..

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• 22.
  

  Title: Agroamerica fights hunger in Guatemala's southwest

  Guatemala, august 2012. Agroamerica, in partnership with the Nutritional Food Security Secretariat- SESAN [for its initials in Spanish], is carrying out the "Nutritional Reinforcement with Bananas" Project to p..

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• 23.
  

  Title: Art auction will help fund scholarships to study in El Zamorano.

  Guatemala, Septiembre 2012. For the second consecutive year, the XNOX/BAM art auction to benefit the Endowment Fund for Agricultural Development in Guatemala of the school El Zamorano, which grants scholarships..

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• 24.
  

  Title: Guatemalan Minister of Agriculture visits Agroamerica

  Guatemala, August 2012. The Guatemalan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food, Efrain Medina, along with the director of the Independent Banana Producers Association -APIB-(for its initials in Spanish), re..

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• 25.
  

  Title: Agroamerica has begun a paper recycling project

  Guatemala, August, 2012. Agroamerica has begun a paper recycling project, with its headquarters' staff. The first stage of this project consisted of a training conducted by the Ecologic Network Association, org..

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• 26.
  

  Title: Agroamerica trains 390 women on "how to create a productive business"

  Guatemala, August 2012. Agroamerica's Happy Families program conducted training sessions for rural women from four coastal communities in Guatemala on setting up and managing a small business. During the wor..

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• 27.
  

  Title: Agroamerica participated in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: Rio + 20

  Guatemala, July 2012. Bernardo Roehrs, Corporate Director at Agroamérica, represented the company at the summit of the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development which took place in Rio de Janeiro, B..

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• 28.
  

  Title: Agroamerica trained their personnel in first aid skills

  Guatemala, July 2012. Last week, Agroamerica taught a first aid course to its farm personnel as a part of an overall human resources training program. This course was given by the local, municipal firemen from..

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• 29.
  

  Title: Agroamerica and the United Nations Explore Collaborative Ways to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Ocós, San Marcos, Guatemala, June 2012. The most recent health survey of the "trifinio" area of southwestern Guatemala conducted by the University of Colorado, Health Needs and Human Development in Guatemala's ..

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• 30.
  

  Title: AgroAmerica rewards its workers with the 2012 Fernando Bolaños Productivity Prize

  Guatemala, June 2012. More than 400 AgroAmerica workers were awarded the Fernando Bolaños Productivity Prize. Winners met certain criteria which contributed to their personal, economic and professional growth,..

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• 31.
  

  Title: Agroamerica carries out a campaign against Influenza for its personnel.

  Guatemala, May, 2012. Agroamerica carried out a day of free vaccines against Influenza for 200 banana farm workers. The activity was organized by the Human Resources Department and the Health Center Caballo Bla..

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• 32.
  

  Title: Agroamerica reinforced the riverbanks of the Mico River to protect the communities from flooding

  Guatemala, May 2012. Agroamerica collaborated with community leaders and rural villages to repair the riverbanks and dredge the Mico River in the town of Huitzitzil, Tiquisate, Escuintla. The company invested l..

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• 33.
  

  Title: The Fernando Bolaños Foundation, through the Order of Malta, obtained a donation for the Valle de los Angeles orphanage

  Guatemala, April 2012. The Fernando Bolaños Foundation organized a donation of food and basic necessities from the Order of Malta for the Valle de Los Angeles orphanage, located just outside Guatemala City. ..

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• 34.
  

  Title: Agroamerica is recognized by Kroger with the award "Corporate Brand Supplier of the Year 2012"

  Guatemala, April 2012. The Kroger supermarket chain, one of the largest chains in the United States, recognized Agroamerica with the award, "Corporate Brand Supplier of the Year 2012" for their exceptional cont..

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• 35.
  

  Title: Agroamerica trained 4,100 community leaders and employees in AIDS prevention

  Guatemala, April 2012. Agroamerica, together with the Independent Anti-AIDS Committee, delivered 43 AIDS prevention workshops with a focus on family values. More than 4,000 employees from the banana and palm pl..

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• 36.
  

  Title: An Agroamerica employee received the prestigious "Order of Excellence in Labor" award from the Ministry of Labor on International Women

  Guatemala, March 2012. Ms. Elvira Reyes, 60 years old and a valued employee for fifteen years, was recognized with an award for her dedication to her maintenance job at Agroamerica. She always arrives to work e..

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• 37.
  

  Title: Agroamerica distributes books to public schools in San Marcos

  Guatemala, February 2012. Agroamerica is supporting the Ministry of Education with the delivery of mathematics, communications, and language arts textbooks to first, second and third grade students in public sc..

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• 38.
  

  Title: Agroamerica conducts the "Dialogue in Action" workshop to help community leaders formulate community projects

  Guatemala, January 2012. Agroamerica contracted the civic organization GuateAmala to impart the workshop "Dialogue in Action: A Window to See Guatemala" targeting 28 community leaders from the southwestern regi..

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• 39.
  

  Title: They Now Have Clean Water

  Guatemala, February 2012. As part of the project "Water is life" Agroamerica, together with UNICEF, the COCODE (local community development council), the Tiquisate Health Center and concerned mothers, helped cl..

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• 40.
  

  Title: Agroamerica donated more than 14,000 bananas to the Subida por la Vida climb of the Agua Volcano

  Guatemala, January 2012. More than 18,000 people climbed the Agua Volcano to participate in the Subida por la Vida initiative (Climb for Life) to raise awareness against violence in Guatemala. The activity was ..

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• 41.
  

  Title: Agroamerica donates used ink cartridges to raise funds to equip schools

  Guatemala, January 2012. Throughout 2011 Agroamerica collected used ink cartridges from all its farms and administrative offices, and donated them to the "Hasta el último cartucho" (Until the last cartridge) pr..

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• 42.
  

  Title: Agroamerica employees were trained by shipping companies

  Guatemala, December 2011. Agroamerica organized the workshop "Handling of Containers" with the shipping companies APL, Maersk and Seaboard Marine in Escuintla for 22 employees. The main objective of these train..

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• 43.
  

  Title: The Canadian Ambassador visits Agroamerica farm

  Guatemala, December 2011. The Canadian Ambassador, Hugues Rousseau, along with Principal Commercial Aggregate Natalie Samson and Charge d'Affairs Christine Luttmann, visited one of Agroamerica´s farms in Escuin..

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• 44.
  

  Title: Agroamérica opens its own academy for professional drivers -ADECOP-

  Guatemala, December 2011. Agroamerica now has its own Academy for Professional Drivers, ADECOP, which will train and give a university certificate issued by the Rafael Landivar University to all company drivers..

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• 45.
  

  Title: Agroamerica conducts a study with doctors from United States

  Guatemala, December 2011. Agroamerica organized the visit of 12 doctors from United States to conduct a study about the health, education and lifestyle situation of the communities bordering the southwestern de..

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• 46.
  

  Title: Agroamerica takes measures to reduce to zero pineapple Carbon print

  Costa Rica, November 2011. Agroamerica joined Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications, the Pineapple Exporters' National Chamber and five other companies to measure the Carbon print ..

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• 47.
  

  Title: Agroamerica promotes care for the environmental in San Jose Mogollon, Escuintla

  Guatemala, November 2011. Agroamerica's Corporate Social Responsibility Department donated plastic containers to the school and health center of San Jose Mogollon, in Escuintla. The plastic containers will be u..

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• 48.
  

  Title: Agroamerica contributes to the education of its employees

  The first class of kinder garden students graduates from the Fernando Bolaños private school. Guatemala, November 2011. Agroamerica celebrated the graduation of 19 kinder garden students from the Fernando B..

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• 49.
  

  Title: Agroamerica contributes to Guatemala's Food and Nutritional Security and the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals

  Guatemala, November 2011. For the past two years Agroamerica has been implementing the Better Families program in 12 rural communities across the country. A self-help program, Better Families focuses on improvi..

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• 50.
  

  Title: Agroamerica donates food to 800 families affected by the tropical storm in Guatemala

  Guatemala, October 2011. Agroamerica donated food to 800 families affected by the rains which recently struck Guatemala's southwestern region. The company delivered food items including flour, beans, sugar, oil..

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• 51.
  

  Title: Agroamerica helped build ten classrooms in the school at Aldea Ticanlú, in Tiquisate, Escuintla

  Guatemala, October 2011. Contributing to education, especially of nearby communities, Agroamerica helped build ten classrooms in the Juan Pablo Hernández School in the community of Ticanlú. This project, whi..

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• 52.
  

  Title: Agroamerica gets new fleet of high technology trucks to improve service

  Guatemala, October 2011. Agroamerica recently acquired a fleet of 20 new trucks with the latest technological innovations to improve efficiency and customer service. The head of Agroamerica's transportation di..

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• 53.
  

  Title: Agroamerica organized a free medical care clinic in two towns of Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango.

  Agroamérica, through their Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Better Families, offered a free medical clinic day in two villages of Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, Los Encuentros and Las Ventanas. The doct..

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• 54.
  

  Title: Agroamérica trained its personnel in Civics in preparation for the General Elections held on September 11th of this year.

  Guatemala, September 2011. In order to foster a positive attitude and encourage a sense of civic duty in its employees to vote responsibly and conscientiously, Agroamérica together with the civic association, G..

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• 55.
  

  Title: Agroamérica offers scholarships to El Zamorano

  Guatemala, September 2011. Agroamérica donates each year (for 5 years) US$25,000 to the Guatemalan Agricultural Development Endowment Fund (FDDAG) which exists thanks to the generous donations made by agribusin..

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• 56.
  

  Title: Agroamerica, in support of the national sport, donates bananas to the Guatemala City 21K Half Marathon.

  Guatemala, September 2011. Agroamerica collaborated with a donation of bananas to help support the more than 10,000 runners from all over the world who participated in the Third Annual Guatemala City 21K Half M..

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• 57.
  

  Title: Agroamérica reinforced the riverbanks and dredged the Mico River to protect the communities from flooding.

  Guatemala, September 2011. As part of their social responsibility program, Agroamérica collaborated with local communities to help build up the riverbanks and dredge the Mico River in the town of Huitzitzil in ..

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• 58.
  

  Title: The "Fernando Bolaños School" is a model for other rural schools.

  Guatemala, August 2011. The private, co-educational Fernando Bolaños School was visited by 54 directors, teachers, and students from other rural schools located in the municipalities of La Reforma and El Quetza..

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• 59.
  

  Title: Agroamerica invited community leaders to participate in a Corporate Social Responsibility workshop (CRS) sponsored by Centrarse.

  Guatemala, August 2011. A group of community leaders from Escuintla were invited by Agroamérica to participate in the workshop: "Introducing CSR in Communities." This workshop was part of the annual Responsible..

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• 60.
  

  Title: Agroamérica cares about the health and nutritional status of its workers, their families, and the surrounding communities.

  Guatemala, August 2011. Agroamérica, concerned with the nutritional status and well-being of its employees, their families and the residents of the communities surrounding their farm operations, have taken on t..

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• 61.
  

  Title: Agroamérica trains rural Guatemalan women in pastry arts

  Guatemala, July 2011. Agroamérica trained forty women from the community of San Francisco Madre Vieja, Escuintla, in the skills of pastry production in order to teach them a new skill that could be used to star..

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• 62.
  

  Title: Agroamérica fumigated the farms, health clinics, and schools in the communities near their operations to prevent diseases carried by vermin and insects.

  Guatemala, July 2011. As part of their Social Responsibility Program, Agroamérica organized a day of fumigation in the communities of Madre Vieja, San Jose Mogollón and Huitzizil, all located in the Department ..

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• 63.
  

  Title: Agroamérica together with community leaders from the Southwest Tripoint of Guatemala received a visit from the Executive Secretary of the National Coordinator for the Reduction of Disasters (CONRED)

  Guatemala, July 2011. Alejandro Maldonado, the Executive Secretary of CONRED met in Chiquirines, Ocós, San Marcos with leaders from sixteen communities from Retahuleu, Quetzaltenango and San Marcos, together ..

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• 64.
  

  Title: Agroamérica organized a clean-up day in the community San José Mogollón

  Guatemala, June, 2011. As part of Agroamérica's corporate responsibility program and Better Families program, a clean-up day was organized in San Jose Mogollon, Nueva Concepción, Escuintla. Many people from th..

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• 65.
  

  Title: Agroamérica rewards its workers with the "Fernando Bolaños Productivity Award"

  Guatemala, June 2011. Each year, Agroamerica awards farms and workers that achieve higher productivity yields. To do that, it evaluates the fulfillment of production targets, technical and environmental standar..

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• 66.
  

  Title: Agroamérica collaborates with the repair of the Pacayá River

  Guatemala, June, 2011. Last month, the Goverment started dredging the mouth of the Pacayá River, located in San Rafael Pacayá, Quetzaltenango. The purpose is to avoid the flooding that occurs in the area during..

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• 67.
  

  Title: Agroamerica launches the project "Learning with Computers" to benefit children in rural communities in Guatemala

  Guatemala, May, 2011. Agroamérica, together with the Ministry of Education, Microsoft, and the Sergio Paiz Foundation (FUNSEPA) an NGO that contributes to social and economic development projects in Guatemala, ..

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• 68.
  

  Title: Agroamerica opens a rural school for children of the company´s employees.

  Agroamerica opened the school called "Mixed Rural Private School Fernando Bolaños," in the Chiquirines village, Caballo Blanco, Rethaluleu, which is directed to the children of Agroamerica´s employees who live ..

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• 69.
  

  Title: Agroamerica organized a free medical care clinic in the town of San José Mogollón, Nueva Concepción, Escuintla.

  Guatemala, April, 2011. Agroamerica, together with the local health care center in the town of San José Mogollón, offered a free medical clinic day to benefit the residents of the community. The medical ..

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• 70.
  

  Title: Agroamerica CEO, was invited to participate in the Global Dialogue of the United Nations Environment Programme

  Guatemala, April 2011. On the 11th and 12th of April, Fernando Bolaños, Agroamerica CEO, was invited to participate in the global dialogue Road to Rio +20: Strengthening the role of the private sector in the tr..

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• 71.
  

  Title: Agroamerica receives the award in the Education category for "Contribution to the Community" from AmCham

  Guatemala, February, 2011. Agroamerica was the winner of an award given annually by the Guatemalan American Chamber of Commerce, AmCham, on February 10th at the Hotel Princess Reforma. The corporation's work a..

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• 72.
  

  Title: Building the Capacity for Effective Multisector Dialogue at AgroAmérica, S.A.

  Executive Summary

  Guatemala's banana sector is plagued by conflict between the private sector and labor, a legacy of the country's civil war "the longest and one of the most brutal in contemporary ..

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• 73.
  

  Title: AgroAmerica: Improving Productivity Through Better Communication

  20% REDUCTION IN WORK STOPPAGES

  Incidents of work stoppage at two AgroAmérica banana farms have dropped by 20 percent as a result of a program designed to build trust and dialogue among workers,..

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• 74.
  

  Title: La Zarca y La Esperanza are certified with Business Alliance for Secure Commerce -BASC-

  Guatemala, January 2010. On January the 5th, banana plantations of Agroamerica, La Zarca and La Esperanza, located in the departments of San Marcos and Quetzaltenango, respectively, were audited by personnel fr..

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• 75.
  

  Title: Agroamerica undertook a project to strengthen the dialogue between Union and Management

  Guatemala, August 2009. Agroamerica, together with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and CentraRSE, leading organizations in Corporate Social Responsibility, undertook the project "Creating a Process of ..

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• 76.
  

  Title: Agroamérica donates plantain seeds to communities in the arid corridor of Guatemala.

  In the area of Guatemala known as the arid corridor, a donation of seeds was made to initiate the planting of this year's plantain crop. The Association of Independent Banana Producers (APIB), to which Agr..

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• 77.
  

  Title: Begins the training in family guidance sponsored by Agroamérica

  Guatemala, July 2009. Agroamerica banana plantations joined together to sponsor training in family guidance given by the organization ENLACE to achieve an integral development for their employees and families i..

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• 78.
  

  Title: Agroamérica sponsors training to farms staff involved with Best Families-CEFI Program

  Guatemala, August 2009. From August 9 to the 14, was held the first training workshop for field technicians and general coordination of the Best Family- CEFI program, sponsored by Agroamérica, at the Hotel Sibo..

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• 79.
  

  Title: Plantations from Agroamérica get GLOBALGAP certified

  Guatemala (July 2009) As part of its ongoing commitment and responsibility to develop good practices, Agroamerica?s banana plantations received the international GLOBALGAP certification. GLOBALGAP is a priv..

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• 80.
  

  Title: Agroamérica repairs infrastructure of Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta in San Francisco Madre Vieja village

  Guatemala, June 2009. Aiming to improve the conditions of students of the village San Francisco Madre Vieja, Agroamerica repaired parts of the installations of the village?s school, Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta,..

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• 81.
  

  Title: Agroamérica brings the light to school in Huitzizil Village

  Guatemala, June 2009. For the students of Escuela Rural Mixta of Huitzizil Village, their school day won't be the same. Since June 17, 2009, their classrooms have lighting, one of the most critical physical cha..

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• 82.
  

  Title: Bridge reparation re-established vehicular traffic towards Las Trozas Village

  Guatemala, May 2009. Aiming to restore vehicular communication and benefit the local community, the bridge from Las Trozas village, which connected three villages in the area, was repaired. The bridge, which..

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• 83.
  

  Title: Founder and President of Agroamérica dies and leaves a great mission

  Guatemala, June 10, 2009. Fernando Bolaños Menéndez, the founder and president of the Corporation Agroamérica, died on Thursday, May 21, after more than 62 years of work. His leadership now is in charge of his ..

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