Emiliana Silvestri

Beyond the Label: Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade; the same, just different..

By Emiliana Silvestri on March 4, 2010
Published in: Features, Features and tagged beverages, coffee, Emiliana Silvestri, Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, Sustainability, tea.

With over 100 eco-labelling schemes in the EU alone, accusations of greenwash filling the columns and once simple eco-ethical claims becoming more complicated, the humble – yet enormously powerful – consumer can be forgiven for finding themselves in the health food aisle at the supermarket scratching their heads in a state of ethical angst. Emiliana [...]

Nay, Palm

By Emiliana Silvestri on March 4, 2010
Published in: Features, Features and tagged Emiliana Silvestri, palm oil, rain forests, sustainable palm oil.

Derived from the African Oil Palm, palm oil, in its pure, reddish, un-hydrogenated form, is highly nutritious full of vitamins, fatty acids, antioxidants, phytonutrients and 15 times more vitamin A carotene than carrots and has been a staple in tropical Africa and SE Asia for centuries. In the 19th century the British [...]