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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘organic coffee’
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 »
The Rains in Riosucio
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ASPROCAFE Ingruma, Colombia, Fair Trade coffee co-operative, organic coffee on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following post was sent to us by Todd Caspersen, Equal Exchange’s Director of Purchasing, on his recent trip to visit our farmer partners in Colombia. Riosucio, Colombia December 5th 2008 View of Supia, Caldas… one of the towns where our coffee producer partners grow our Organic Colombian coffee How do you tell a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Listening to the Birds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged climate change, Fair Trade coffee, farmer livelihoods, migratory song birds, organic coffee, small-scale co-operatives on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By now, many of us are well aware that Fair Trade products provide small-scale farmers with higher prices, access to credit, technical assistance, global markets, and solidarity networks. Most of us here at Equal Exchange enjoy a daily cup (or more) of fine coffee. And knowing how incredibly labor intensive coffee cultivation is, we deeply [...]
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