TEA: A Challenge for the Fair Trade Model
 A few years ago, in a controversial move, one of the two Fair Trade certifiers changed a key requirement when they constructed the Fair Trade model for tea. They decided that due to the scarcity of small farmers in the major tea producing countries such as India and Sri Lanka, the model would revolve around plantations rather than small farms... More |
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What percent of the world’s supply of Fair Trade Certified™ tea comes from small farmer cooperatives?
See bottom of Tea article for answer.
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UMCOR Comes Through for Farmers
United Methodists across the country are part of a strong and growing partnership that has come through for farmers again and again...
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A Partnership with Wainwright Bank
 Do you know where your money in your bank account has been? Every day, your carefully saved money is being used to fund something—but do you think about what it is? More |
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Colombia Visit
This past fall Beth Ann Caspersen, Equal Exchange's Quality Control Manager, traveled to Colombia to learn more about the reality for Equal Exchange’s coffee trading partners. ...
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Aid to Farmer Co-ops Devastated by Hurricane Stan
 Coffee farmers and their families were severely affected when Hurricane Stan swept through southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador this past October. Torrential rainfall caused mudslides and flooding that destroyed thousands of homes and washed away dozens of roads and bridges across the region...
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Smoke Signals
The Equal Exchange roasting team has
kept our drum roaster rolling at full speed day and night over the past few months in a Sisyphean effort to meet the ever increasing
thirst for java justice...
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Espresso Battle
 At the end of January, five Equal Exchange staffers went head to head to compete in what became known as the Equal Exchange Espresso Battle...
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