The Via Campesina, the largest organization of small farmers in the world, has long advocated for changes in our agriculture and trade policies. For the past decade, they have been promoting the principles of Food Sovereignty as a way forward to protect rural communities, our food system, and the planet. As a movement that originated [...]
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Five Reasons We Should Support Small Farms in the Global South
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agroecology, environment, food crisis, Food security, food sovereignty, small farmers, Via Campesina on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Happy Earth Day!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Earth Day, environment, small farmer co-operatives on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can we even say that anymore? In honor of Earth Day, I’ve decided to work from home and avoid using my car. Here in Boston, it’s a beautiful, sunny day – not too much of a hardship to be sitting at my laptop on my back porch, cup of coffee in hand. But seriously, like [...]
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