“Fair Trade is in crisis”, says Frans Van der Hoff, one of the co-founders of the Fair Trade system which was created in the late 1980′s, in a recent interview aired on CBC Radio in Canada. “We’re in a crisis but it’s a positive crisis. Because now you have to rethink and redo and make [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fair Trade’
Fair Trade in Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade on November 3, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Local and Fair: Are the Underlying Values Complimentary?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Buy Local, Fair Trade on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m on vacation this week! So it might be quiet on the blog, but I wanted to leave you all with this question: do you think the goals of the Buy Local movement and the Fair Trade movement are more compatible than they are contradictory? Underneath the slogans and the sound bytes, it [...]
Commemorate World Fair Trade Day with Two Education-for-Action Resources Designed to Foster Real Change in Our Global Food System!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, food sovereignty, World Fair Trade Day on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is World Fair Trade Day and it seemed a great time to let you know about two exciting educational resources designed to foster real change in our global food system. The first is an exciting tool focused on Fair Trade for parents, teachers and activists who would like to bring social justice to the [...]
Beyond Coffee: Fair Trade and Workers’ Rights in a Changing Economy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banana plantations, Fair Trade, free trade agreements, worker rights on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The following article by Stephen Coats, Director of the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US Leap), was published in the April 2009 Peacework Magazine, a publication of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). We wish to thank the AFSC, one of our Interfaith partners, for their interest in exploring some of the complexities of [...]
(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 [...]
Celebrate International Women’s Day
Posted in Fair Trade, small farmer co-operatives, Uncategorized, tagged co-op, Equal Exchange, Fair Trade, small farmers, women on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year to recognize the economic, political and social achievements of women around the world. Equal Exchange is proud to support women-centered projects through our work with small farmer co-ops. Today we’re highlighting a few of them. From income diversity to leadership training, these projects represent the [...]
Another reflection on small farmer co-operatives: a vehicle for democracy and local control
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, small farmer co-operative on February 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
As the (former) Producer Relations Coordinator at Equal Exchange, people are always asking me why we choose to focus our relationships and purchasing strategies on small farmer co-operatives. Most people familiar with Fair Trade understand the critical importance that higher prices, advance credit and direct relationships have on growers. Through decades of organizing, educating, and [...]
Is Fair Trade Tea from Plantations an Oxymoron? Some tea estate workers think so.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, plantations, tea on January 6, 2009 | 13 Comments »
A recent article in the Times On Line, “Tea workers still waiting to reap Fairtrade benefits” by Parminder Bahra reveals the contradictions the fair trade system has brought upon itself by embracing large scale plantations into a structure originally created to benefit small scale farmers in the developing world. In the Times article, tea workers [...]
Fair Trade, Food Sovereignty and the Food Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, Alternative Trade Organizations, co-operatives, Fair Trade, food crisis, food sovereignty, small farmers on December 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As the year 2008 comes to a close, the world must cope with a recent assertion made by the Food and Agriculture Organization that “one billion people will go hungry around the globe next year for the first time in human history…” This shameful scenario was presented in the December 28th issue of The Independent: [...]
President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, food crisis, solidarity economy on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our food system is broken. One billion people across the globe face hunger and food insecurity. On October 15th, World Food Day, a group of food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across the US put forth a Call to Action calling on the next administration to take rapid steps to address the food crisis through fundamental [...]
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