Comments on: Alternative Economic Models: What do Food Co-ops and Fair Trade have in common? http://smallfarmersbigchange.coop/2009/11/10/alternative-economic-models-what-do-food-co-ops-and-fair-trade-have-in-common/ A green and more just food system starts with small farmers. Thu, 17 May 2012 02:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scott http://smallfarmersbigchange.coop/2009/11/10/alternative-economic-models-what-do-food-co-ops-and-fair-trade-have-in-common/#comment-1683 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:09:03 +0000 http://eecampaign.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/alternative-economic-models-what-do-food-co-ops-and-fair-trade-have-in-common/#comment-1683 HI Phyllis,

Great follow-up to your “Fair Trade in Crisis” blog! It was inspiring to hear the stories and insights from the co-op videos!

Co-operatives certainly do provide an alternative model that supports the fair trade philosophy of economic transformation. Love the way your qualified the poverty reduction ideas of them and us and the economic transformation ideas of WE.

I suppose the challenge from my perspective is that there doesn’t seem to be a particularly close resemblance between the co-op models that are a part of the current ‘fairtrade’ market system and the food co-op models in relation to their supply chains. This is particularly evident with the introduction of ‘corporate’ fairtrade licensees!

What do you see as the actions that we ‘Northerners’ can take to support the more complete integration of food co-op models into the fairtrade co-op models?

Maintain the ‘FLOW’!
Regards
Scott

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