Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

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"Organic agriculture in general is well suited to small-scale farmers because usually small-scale farmers do not have much cash to purchase external inputs, chemical inputs,pesticides, or chemical fertilizers."

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Honest Tea is the nation's top-selling organic bottled tea company.

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Nearly 5,000 farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal, and Sierra Leone are exporting organically-grown produce to Europe, after gaining organic and fair-trade certification with help from the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization.

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And,what we do is grow organic and fair-traded cotton."

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The hotels use energy-saving lights and appliances, buy local wine and produce for their restaurants, compost organic waste, donate old linens and towels to charities, and use an energy-efficient, "green" local laundry.

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Some farmers who are not in the program have begun adopting organic farming techniques in hopes of joining small organic cooperatives that are beginning to negotiate long-term contracts with European organic and fair-trade wholesalers.

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