Cookstoves for farmers good for spice trade, too

What would it look like if each company in the industrialized world with a significant business stake in a developing country took an interest in the well-being of the communities that helped it turn a profit?

One model might look like the emerging collaboration between Rodelle Inc., the 75-year-old Fort Collins-based producer of some of the finest vanilla extract in the world; the Uganda Vanilla Growers Association, a top exporter from which Rodelle buys its beans; and Trees, Water & People, a Fort Collins-based nonprofit organization dedicated to “helping communities to protect, conserve and manage the natural…