The following post is offered by Nicholas Reid, Sales Representative of the Natural Foods Department at Equal Exchange. His original comments were published in response to a post on GreenLAGirl’s blog about the Business Week article, “Is Fair Trade Becoming ‘Fair Trade Lite’?”. At Equal Exchange we feel strongly that small-scale sustainable farming is the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Fair Trade as a Tool for Transformation: Can plantations play that role?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bananas, Cargill, Chiquita, Fair Trade, plantations, small farmer co-operatives, tea on July 28, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Trade Liberalization Brings Scant Benefit to Rural Latin America, says new report
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged small farmers, TRADE Act, trade agreeements on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The TRADE Act, currently before Congress, is an attempt to rethink U.S. trade policies. The following is a press release from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University about the impact trade policies have had on small-scale farmers: Agricultural trade liberalization has largely failed [...]
Fair Trade: Are we here to “help” poor people or radically change injust systems that keep people poor?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agrarian reform, Fair Trade, Fair Trade Lite, food system, George Monbiot, Green Revolution, plantations, small farmers on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In her blog, GreenLaGirl, Siel wrote about the issues presented in the Business Week article, “Is Fair Trade Becoming ‘Fair Trade Lite’?” and asked those of us at Equal Exchange why we were so opposed to the idea that plantations and multi-nationals should be operating within the Fair Trade system. Siel wondered if EE is [...]
Take action to build support for the TRADE Act, an exciting new path toward FAIR trade agreements
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, free trade, small farmers on July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On June 4, Representative Michael Michaud and Senator Sherrod Brown introduced the TRADE Act to Congress. As the press release from the National Family Farm Coalition expressed (see our earlier blog post), this is an exciting opportunity for Congress to finally reform existing trade bills and ensure that future trade agreements are designed to actually [...]
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