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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chiapas’
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 »
Join in Solidarity with Organizations in Chiapas: Community activists face harassment and intimidation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiapas, CIEPAC on February 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This week we received a letter from our friends at the Center for Economic & Political Research for Community Action (CIEPAC) in Chiapas with an update of the on-going repression (including death threats) that members of their staff, and community leaders with whom they work, have been experiencing.
CIEPAC has been an organizational ally of Equal Exchange for [...]
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 same year, they [...]
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 | 1 Comment »
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 minds to the task. Since [...]
Growing Pains: Keeping Fair Trade Fair
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiapas, CIRSA, coffee, Fair Trade, Fair Trade certification, FLO, Mexico, small farmer co-operatives, small farmers on September 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The following article, written by Patty Kupfer, was printed in the September/October 2008 issue of Sojourner’s Magazine. Patty used to work for Witness for Peace and co-organized some of Equal Exchange’s Interfaith Department’s delegation visits to Chiapas. During these trips, we visited our coffee farmer partners, CIRSA, an amazing organization of Tzotzil and Tzeltal -speaking [...]
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