Article written by Esther West, Interfaith Program Representative and Ashley Symons, Marketing Writer This time of year especially, consumers have the power to participate in a movement that supports long-term partner relationships based on equality, environmental sustainability, and democratic business structures via co-operatives. Here are some ideas for holiday gifts that truly keep on giving. [...]
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Fair Trade Gift Ideas
Posted in Fair Trade, Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade on December 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Next Frontier
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bananas, Fair Trade on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t worry that America underestimates the gravity of the economic situation in which we find ourselves. I do worry that Americans will be content looking to the government to “bail us out”. Barack Obama, even with the sharpest team of economists and thinkers of our time, cannot solve our problems without the support, and [...]
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 [...]
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 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why are Organic Fair Trade Coffee Co-operatives So Good For the Environment?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee co-operatives, Fair Trade, Nicaragua, Organic, PROCOCER, Tierra Nueva on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Coffee grows best under a canopy of shade. By keeping their coffee farms well-forested, as well as by practicing sustainable farming methods, our producer partners are doing their part for the environment: reducing soil erosion, increasing soil fertility, maintaining habitat for wildlife and migratory songbirds, protecting water sources, and much, much more… Unfortunately, when visiting [...]
FTF Commentary: The Credit Crisis and Fair Trade – possible consequences for producers, wholesalers and retailers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged credit crisis, Fair Trade, Fair Trade Federation on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Fair Trade Federation has published the following commentary about the credit crisis and Fair Trade, asking that the information be circulated widely. A string of financial problems within the US and world economy, triggered by a US housing crisis, have arisen in 2008. The question becomes how may these global problems manifest themselves within [...]
If Big is Bad, and Small is Better, What’s the Right Scale Needed to Foment Democracy and Increase Impact?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged co-operatives, economic democracy, Fair Trade, small farmers on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Once again, I’d like to thank all of you for your thought-provoking comments to Nick’s post, “Co-operatives: The Democracies of our Economy?” Many interesting issues were raised relating to the current financial meltdown and the roles and responsibilities of corporations and governments. Another common theme that many of you discussed was the question of the size [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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