Small Farmers. Big Change.

By Manju Gupta, Equal Exchange Sales Representative Recently, I traveled to the Weaver Street Markets (WSM) in North Carolina with my co-worker LJ Taylor where we conducted a number of trainings with co-op staff. It was especially meaningful (and crazy overdue) to LJ who worked at the WSM Southern Village store years back! Old friends [...]

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I just arrived at the Hotel Peru in Piura, Peru. Eight years ago, I stayed at this same hotel (I think I’m actually in the same room) with Keith Olcott, Tom Hanlon Wilde of Equal Exchange, and a group of general managers, store managers, and buyers of various natural foods stores that have strong relationships with [...]

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By Virginia Berman, Equal Exchange Fundraising Program Manager   Twenty years ago I lived in Honduras with the Peace Corps in Santiago de Puringla working with hillside farmers to find campesino leaders to help in soil conservation. These farmers had tiny plots of land they nurtured to grow enough food to survive and earned a [...]

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By Daniel Fireside, the Capital Coordinator at Equal Exchange Many people in the SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) world are familiar with the pioneering work that Equal Exchange has done to bring Fair Trade coffee, chocolate, tea, bananas and other products to the United States. We take great pride in the fact that our success has [...]

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By Nicholas Reid, Equal Exchange Sales Account Representative Due to a multitude of factors, most beyond our control, coffee prices are going up.  Again.  Starting April 1, 2011,  Equal Exchange is increasing the cost of all coffees sold to retail stores by $.50 a pound. Please trust that this has been a very difficult decision [...]

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