In March, a group of seven representatives of various food co-operatives across the country joined three Equal Exchange worker-owners on a trip to Chiapas, Mexico to visit one of our coffee farmer partners, CESMACH. Many of them have written about this experience and have offered some very interesting perspectives on coffee farming, the CESMACH co-operative [...]
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In Their Own Words: Equal Exchange’s Co-op Partners Reflect on Their Visit to Mexico – Part II
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, food co-ops, small farmer coffee co-operative on July 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In Their Own Words: Equal Exchange’s Co-op Partners Reflect on Their Visit to Mexico – Part I
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, co-op supply chain, food co-ops, small farmer co-ops on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last month we reposted an article, “From Farmer Co-ops to Food Co-ops: The Struggle for Fair Trade” written by Steve Stroup, Member Services and Outreach Coordinator at Bloomingfoods Co-op which was originally printed on their website about a difficult, yet inspiring trip a small group of us from Equal Exchange and food co-op partners took [...]
From Farmer Co-ops to Food Co-ops: The Struggle for Fair Trade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bloomington Food Co-op, CESMACH, Chiapas, coop supply chain, food co-operatives, Mexico on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following article by Steve Stroup, Member Services and Outreach Coordinator at Bloomingfoods, was originally posted on the Bloomingfoods website. Bloomingfoods has been a key and fundamental partner of Equal Exchange for over 15 years. They have been instrumental in helping us envision and build an alternative model of trade that aims to restore dignity and fairness to small [...]
(Co-operative) Value Added
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, coffee co-operative, El Triunfo Biosphere, Fair Trade, women's economic development on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Nicholas Reid, Natural Foods Sales Representative “For me, it’s all about co-ops. I just want to go back and teach co-op.” -Margaret Mills, Grocery Manager, People’s Food Co-op, Lacrosse, Wisconsin This March, I had the honor of visiting a community of our farmer partners in Chiapas, Mexico. No one could summarize my feelings about [...]
Ecological Farmers from the Sierra Madre of Chiapas – Part II
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, Chiapas, coffee co-opeerative, El Triunfo, Fair Trade, organic coffee, sustainable development on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… continued from the previous post. In 1994 the organization was legally registered as a civil society association under the name “Ecological Farmers of the Sierra Madre of Chiapas” (CESMACH). Then, in 1996, they obtained their first certification of organic processes and products from the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) and, in that [...]
Ecological Farmers from the Sierra Madre of Chiapas – Part I
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, Chiapas, coffee co-operative, El Triunfo Biosphere on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As many of you are now well aware, Equal Exchange buys a portion of our Mexican coffee from the CESMACH co-operative of small-scale farmers in Chiapas. We have told the story of how we began working with CESMACH, and have posted links to a variety of articles that others, who have travelled with us to [...]
Women in Chiapas Coffee Co-operative Organize to Protect the Biosphere, Feed their Families, and Diversify their Incomes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, Chiapas, coffee co-op, Fair Trade, Food security, women's economic development on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The story of the CESMACH (Campesinos Ecológicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas) coffee co-operative in Mexico is a powerful example of what a group of far-sighted and tenacious farmers, with a commitment to protect the unique cloud forest in which they live, can accomplish when they set their [...]
Food co-op buyers travel to Chiapas to learn about Fair Trade, free trade and small farmer initiatives to protect the fragile eco-system of El Triunfo Biosphere
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, El Triunfo, environmental protection, Fair Trade, free trade, small farmer co-operatives on June 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On World Fair Trade Day, we posted a few links to an article and a blog post written by Karisa Centenni (see: World Fair Trade Day) about the Equal Exchange Food Co-op trip to Chiapas, Mexico this past January. Since that time, we have received copies of two other articles written by participants of that [...]
World Fair Trade Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buy Local, CESMACH, environment, Fair Trade, small farmer co-operatives, World Fair Trade Day on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Karisa Centanni, education coordinator at the Honest Weight Food Co-op, a member owned and operated natural foods grocery store on Central Avenue in Albany travelled with Equal Exchange to visit CESMACH, one of our co-operative partners in Chiapas, Mexico. For World Fair Trade Day on May 10th, Karisa wrote about her impressions of CESMACH, and offered [...]
Small-scale coffee farmers: trading partners or suppliers?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, Fair Trade, Mexico, small farmer co-operatives on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As a result of a reader’s comment to the previous story, I’ve decided to write a new entry which attempts to further highlight what is so important about small farmer co-operatives and what the differences are between companies who see farmers as partners and those who see them as suppliers. The questions he asks give [...]
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