Interested in learning more about the producers who grow your coffee, the co-operative businesses they have created to successfully compete in the global marketplace, and the impact this work has had on their communities? Don’t take our word! You can visit some of these co-ops yourselves. Stay in the homes of the farmers. Meet [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CECOCAFEN’
“… Fair Trade is MORE than just a higher price”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CECOCAFEN, Fair Trade eco-tourism on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
‘Who are the crazy ones today?’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, Nicaragua, CECOCAFEN, small farmers, Tierra Nueva, co-op on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Leading a business with your ideals? You must be crazy.” That’s what Angela Vendetti and her business partner, Jill Fink, heard when they started dreaming about opening Mugshots Café in Philadelphia. “When we were writing our business plan and trying to get Mugshots open, people told us we were crazy for putting our ideals before [...]
Fair Trade coffee co-operative in solidarity with unemployed farm workers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CECOCAFEN, Fair Trade, Nicaragua, small farmer co-operatives on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to share a highly inspiring story from Nicaragua of solidarity between unemployed farm workers and a small-scale farmer co-operative that Equal Exchange has partnered with for over 15 years. In the early 1990s when the coffee crisis was most severe, conventional coffee companies were paying farmers as little as 45 cents per [...]
-
-
-
Pages
How to support our farmer partners’ efforts to green the planet:
- Write a tax-deductible check to Grassroots International and send it to: Equal Exchange, 50 United Dr., West Bridgewater, MA 02379. Write "Small Farmers Green Planet fund" on the check.
Click here to make a tax-deductible donation by credit card
- Support the TRADE Act! Read our blog entry or go to Action Alerts on the Equal Exchange website for more information.Archives
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- February 2008
Action Alerts
Tags
-
Top Posts
- Take Action
- Small-Scale Rooibos Farmers Adapt to Climate Change through Sustainable Farming Practices
- Green Partnerships
- Food Security, Organic Farming, and Environmental Preservation in Colombia
- It's Dole vs. Bananas
- Transforming the Tea Industry: From Plantations to a Small Farmer Model
- Dilemmas of a Fair Trade Banana Enthusiast
- Join Us for the Fair Trade Futures Conference in Quincy, MA, Sept 2010
- Planting Trees for Life in Nicaragua
