Small Farmers. Big Change.

by Peter Buck, Community Sales Representative Las Colinas co-operative, an Equal Exchange trading partner in El Salvador for 15 years, has  lost about 15% of its coffee crop and all of its corn and beans to a devastating storm that dumped a year’s worth of rain on Central America over eleven days in October, 2011. [...]

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Know what’s IN your FOOD! It’s a world wide movement! Click to watch the NEW video! Click to sign the petition! It takes less than 5 minutes.

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Our Friends at the Fair Trade Resource Network have organized another interesting webinar, entitled: “Should Hired Labor Plantations & Unorganized Farmers Participate in Fair Trade?” We invite you to learn about, and voice your perspectives on, this major issue on Webinar 120 on January 31. Just $5 to Register for Webinar 120   January 31, [...]

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When the Ecological Farmers of the Sierra Madres of Chiapas (CESMACH) found an important buyer to purchase their coffee, they were elated. “It was a dream come true,” Sixto Bonilla, export manager, says. “For a small-scale farmer organization to have a large company interested in buying their entire production … you can’t imagine a better [...]

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Below is an updated post from December 21st which now includes a list of the Fair Trade Stakeholder Council participants and some information on how others can get involved. North America Fair Trade Stakeholder Council Forms to Clarify the Direction of Fair Trade With Fair Trade experiencing monumental change in the past few months, committed stakeholders [...]

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Please sign our public statement reaffirming your commitment to support authentic Fair Trade. Deep controversies in the Fair Trade movement have been simmering over the past decade. Today, the situation has reached a boiling point and concrete actions must be taken or we  risk losing everything we have collectively built. For those of you who [...]

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This past Christmas Eve, Equal Exchange Hot Cocoa was promoted on a South Korean television show! Fair Trade Korea, the first fair trade company in South Korea introduced themselves to us in 2009 and have been selling our products in their country since that time.  We were all quite excited to receive these photos from them.  Stay tuned [...]

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With Fair Trade experiencing monumental change in the past few months, committed stakeholders in N. America have started a dialogue initiative to clarify the direction for the Fair Trade movement in N. America with the goal of upholding its benefits for marginalized producers around the world. The initiative, called the N. America Fair Trade Stakeholder [...]

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PRESS RELEASE   BOSTON CAFÉS LAUNCH SHARED DISLOYALTY CARD Coffee lovers now rewarded for being disloyal.   BOSTON/CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Dec. 7, 2011 – Coffee slingers of Boston are uniting to celebrate the city’s incredible café landscape and the art of brewing up high-quality artisanal coffee. This winter, eight independently owned cafés are joining together [...]

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Press Release More than 233 families from Coyona, in the Canchaque district of Huancabamba Province, have achieved one of their objectives. They have put into operation, the recently inaugurated Wet Processing Coffee Plant, which will enable them to process the coffee produced in this area of the Piuran zone of the Sierras. The project belongs [...]

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