In July, the Twin Cities Daily Planet published an article by Doug McGill about the exciting work our Minnesota office is doing to educate consumers about our small farmer co-operative partners. They’re also strengthening existing relationships and building new ones among local food co-operatives, consumers and the Oromian community in the Twin Cities area. I [...]
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From Oromia to Minnesota, With Love and Coffee
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, Ethiopia, Fair Trade, OCFCU, Oromia, small farmer co-operatives on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Corporatization of Fair Trade, Small Farmers, Alienated Consumers, and Social Movements
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, coffee, Fair Trade, Fair Trade certification, Fair Trade movement on September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Twenty-two years ago, Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal, and Michael Rozyne founded the first Fair Trade coffee and tea organization in the United States. Soon thereafter, their first Fair Trade coffee line, Café Nica, was launched. At that time, the Sandinistas were governing Nicaragua and there was an embargo preventing Nicaraguan products from being exported to [...]
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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