Our coffee co-op partner, CECOVASA has just received an award for the impact their work has had on promoting and protecting bio-diversity in the region. The award was presented to them by Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru. We have just received the following press release about this impressive accomplishment which we have translated below from its original [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environmental protection’
And now… some good news out of Peru
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cecovasa, environmental protection, Fair Trade coffee co-operative, Peru on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Small Farmer Coffee Keeps Southern Ecuador Green
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ecuador, environmental protection, Fair Trade coffee, FAPECAFES, organic coffee, small farmer co-operative on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been several years now since I traveled to southern Ecuador to visit one of our farmer co-operative partners, the Federation of Ecological Coffee Producer Associations in the Southern Region (FAPECAFES), but it’s a visit I still remember well. I’m sharing it here because I think that many of the issues are still very relevant [...]
Planting Trees for Life in Nicaragua: One Year Later
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environmental protection, Fair Trade, Nicaragua, organic coffee, reforestation, Tierra Nueva on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Get up early in the morning before the family awakens. Collect the firewood. Light the stove. Grind the corn that you prepared the night before and start making the pile of tortillas that will accompany your family’s meals throughout the day. The fire is burning, the beans are cooking… and the smoke is filling the [...]
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 [...]
Our first responses to the question, “what Big Change would you like to see our network accomplish over the next 20 years?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environmental protection, Fair Trade, small-scale farmers, supply chain on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At this year’s annual Specialty Coffee Association of America conference, we asked a group of our farmer co-operative, food co-operative, Interfaith partners, and other friends and allies to tell us what Big Change they would like to see our network accomplish over the next 20 years. Here’s some of their responses:
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