The following Action Alert was written by our friends at Fair World Project on November 28, 2011.
Take Action! Send a letter to Fair Trade USA, Fairtrade International and IMO and urge them to continue supporting small coffee farmers by not...
Part I: They’ve got the cashews. We’ve got the market. It’s a perfect match…
Coffee. Tea. Chocolate. Bananas. Almonds. Olive Oil. Geobars.
Last year we decided to add cashew nuts into the mix of new products we sell to...
Not-for-profit organization Fair World Project has criticized changes to Fair Trade USA’s labeling policy, which allows chocolate to carry the seal when it contains a high percentage of other ingredients like sugar that are not fairly traded...
How many of you shop at a farmer’s market when you have the chance? Especially when you’re traveling, don’t you love stumbling upon a local farmer’s market wherever you are? What better way to get to know a new place than by seeing what food is...
I spent yesterday morning walking around Valdivia, discovering some of the city’s unique qualities. There’s a bustling, but very manageable downtown area, a shady central park, river walkways and outdoor markets, a university campus with a...
I woke up this morning in Valdivia, the main city in this southern province of Chile. It’s called a city, but to me it seems more like a university town. Quite a beautiful one, situated at the juncture of four rivers: Rio Calle Calle, Rio...
Raúl de Águila Hidalgo, General Manager of Equal Exchange’s trading partner COCLA and a leader in the international fair trade movement, died suddenly on February 13. EE’s Tom Hanlon-Wilde shares this memory:
Raul de Aguila and Tom...
The following was an email sent to us by Anna Canning from our Portland office where our first shipment of cashew nuts from the small farmer co-op, Aprainores in El Salvador arrived yesterday.
Shawn and Tyler sending our first shipment of cashew...
Where do your nuts come from? Our very first container of organic, Fair Trade, small farmer cashew nuts has just arrived from the Aprainores Co-op in El Salvador! Soon to be sold at a food co-op near you. Look for them! Enjoy them! Let us know...
The following was written by Becca Koganer, Natural Foods Sales Representative, Equal Exchange
Escolastico Perez Gomez picking coffee.
Coffee growing is the most intense work I have ever witnessed. I can’t really put it into words.
The trek to the...
