“Our 20-year vision contemplates a mutually cooperative community and this week overlapping events in West Bridgewater and Nairobi demonstrate what that can mean. Cuppers from two of our African partners are here to participate in our 5th annual Co-operation in Quality seminar; simultaneously two staff people from the same co-operatives are in Nairobi with Twin Trading [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Sharing knowledge, experiences and a common vision across two continents
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Solving the Food Crisis: Agro-ecology or Agri-business?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where would you put your trust? Clearly, it depends on where you’re situated in the food system. If you’re Dupont or Monsanto, you might view the threat of climate change as an opportunity and rush in to sell more geneticially engineered crops to farmers. This probably would also be the perfect moment to lobby [...]
Tell me again why we’re spending tax money to build a border wall?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quick news flash from the Mexico-US Solidarity Network News and Analysis September 14-20, 2009 Border wall a waste of moneyA report issued on Thursday by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found over 3,000 breaches of a still-unfinished 600-mile border wall which cost more than US$2.4 billion since 2005. The federal government will have to spend [...]
“… The Not-So-Sweet Truth about…Chocolate Bars.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child slavery, Fair Trade chocolate, Ozark Natural Foods on September 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the unique things about Equal Exchange is that the foundation of our work is based on relationships. It’s both how we do our work and why we do our work. The means and the ends, you could say. Relationships with our farmer partners, for sure. But we also carry out our work in [...]
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