At this morning’s staff meeting, we were told that Bethany from Ten Thousand Villages in Goshen, Indiana included the following poem with her weekly order: Chocolate, O, chocolate How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… In fondue, flourless chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies, in espresso drinks, beside espresso drinks, melted [...]
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An Ode to Chocolate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CONACADO, Fair Trade chocolate, Ten Thousand Villages on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Photo Journal Through Panama: The COCABO Cacao Co-operative
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cacao, COCABO, Fair Trade cacao co-operative, Panama on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The following photo essay was written by Dary Goodrich, Chocolate Products Manager. It first appeared in the April/May issue of What’s Brewing. In September 2008, Equal Exchange launched our first single origin chocolate bar, using cacao beans from Panama. We have received nothing but superb feedback on this new bar, the Organic Panama Extra Dark [...]
From Farmer Co-ops to Food Co-ops: The Struggle for Fair Trade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bloomington Food Co-op, CESMACH, Chiapas, coop supply chain, food co-operatives, Mexico on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following article by Steve Stroup, Member Services and Outreach Coordinator at Bloomingfoods, was originally posted on the Bloomingfoods website. Bloomingfoods has been a key and fundamental partner of Equal Exchange for over 15 years. They have been instrumental in helping us envision and build an alternative model of trade that aims to restore dignity and fairness to small [...]
Sometimes Less is More
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following reflection was written by Wells Neal, Senior Director National Market. I continue to be happily surprised anytime I relearn the lesson that less is usually more. Such was the case, on a recent visit to a hospital/full care nursing facility account of ours in the Tug Hill plateau area of upstate [...]
Protecting the Rights of Farm Workers through Labor Law Reform
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade plantations, farm worker rights, UFW on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In his article in the April issue of Peaceworks, “On Beyond Coffee: Fair Trade and Workers’ Rights in a Changing Economy,” Stephen Coats discusses some of the concerns raised by the labor movement over the expansion of the Fair Trade model to include large-scale producers. He raises the question of whether Fair Trade certification is [...]
Tell Pesticide Peddlers: We support Michelle Obama’s organic garden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged White House organic garden on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You are absolutely not going to believe this! For over ten years now people have been trying to get the White House to dig up part of their lawn and plant an organic garden in its place. Finally, with the arrival of the Obamas, this dream is becoming a reality. “A garden like [...]
Food Security and Fair Trade Coffee: Women in Oaxaca, Mexico Double their Efforts to Provide for their Families
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CEPCO, Fair Trade coffee co-operative, Food security, Mexico, organic farming on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following article was written by Phyllis Robinson and Lilian Autler of Grassroots International. Anita Cecila Garcia Cruz, of Confianza community Member of the CEPCO General Assembly (photo courtesy of Grassroots International) Times are tough for rural communities in Mexico right now – as they are for small farmers throughout the world. Fair Trade [...]
On Passover: Considering Child Slavery on Cocoa Farms
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child slavery, cocoa farms, Fair Trade chocolate on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following article, by Rodney North, Public Relations Manager and Susan Sklar, Interfaith Program Manager, first appeared on April 2nd on the Jew and the Carrot blog. On Passover every Jew is obligated to imagine that he or she had once been a slave in the land of Egypt. We try to envision the [...]
Beyond Coffee: Fair Trade and Workers’ Rights in a Changing Economy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banana plantations, Fair Trade, free trade agreements, worker rights on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The following article by Stephen Coats, Director of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US Leap), was published in the April 2009 Peacework Magazine, a publication of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). We wish to thank the AFSC, one of our Interfaith partners, for their interest in exploring some of the complexities of [...]
Food for Change: A new bill before Congress
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of April Fool’s Day… the following is a fictitious press release by Nick Reid that we wish were was actually factual: In a press conference yesterday on Capitol Hill, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his sponsorship of a bill that he describes as “part economic stimulus plan, part environmental protection bill and part Farm [...]
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