As if there weren’t enough happening in Peru, the country has been experiencing torrential rains, heavy flooding, landslides and mudslides in the central highlands and the jungle provinces that have caused at least 20 deaths, extensive damage to crops, and the destruction of many roads and bridges. We recently received this brief note from Santiago [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Heavy rains and flooding in Peru
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CEPICAFE, Peru, small farmer co-operatives on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Peruvian farmers protest Free Trade Agreement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CEPICAFE, free trade, FTA, Peru, small-scale farmers on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 20th marked the end of a two-day national agrarian strike in Peru. Campesino organizations demanded government measures to alleviate the financial hardships small-scale farmers will face as a result of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) recently signed with the U.S. Under the FTA, tariffs will be lifted on heavily subsidized U.S. grains, like corn [...]
Fair Trade coffee co-operative in solidarity with unemployed farm workers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CECOCAFEN, Fair Trade, Nicaragua, small farmer co-operatives on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to share a highly inspiring story from Nicaragua of solidarity between unemployed farm workers and a small-scale farmer co-operative that Equal Exchange has partnered with for over 15 years. In the early 1990s when the coffee crisis was most severe, conventional coffee companies were paying farmers as little as 45 cents per [...]
How free trade destroys local economies, hurts small farmers and causes massive waves of migration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, free trade, immigration, Mexico, NAFTA on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There used to be one bus a day leaving this area (Esquintla, Chiapas) heading north. Now, four buses a day go to the border…. And each is packed with our young boys. Today, with the conditions the way they are, youth have become our biggest export.” -Miguel Angel Barrios Bravo, president of a coffee co-operative [...]
Why “local” and “Equal Exchange Fair Trade” are two sides of the same coin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buy Local, Fair Trade, Organic on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Suddenly everyone’s talking about local: “Local is the new organic,” we’re told. Farmers’ markets are springing up in food co-operative and church parking lots and on Main Streets throughout the country. More people are joining CSAs (community supported agriculture) and choosing locally grown products in their grocery stores. And as this trend continues, more and [...]
About this blog
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At Equal Exchange, we buy from co-operatives of small-scale farmers who love what they do. And they want you to love what they produce. But the system is stacked against them. While corporations strengthen their grip on the food system, consumers and farmers lose. Consumers lose their connection to the land. Farmers lose the land [...]
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