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23 May '13

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VietnamHop Tac cooperative: Improving coffee, improving community

Despite a difficult year for coffee growers, the Hop Tac co-operative in Vietnam has been thriving. The co-operative has used training and support from Fairtrade to ...

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Global NewsSmall Producer Symbol Shares New Developments

The Small Producer Symbol (SPP), a certification and labeling system created and run by small Fair Trade producers in Latin America, reports that now 33 small producer organizations are certified under the system and another 16 are in process of getting certified. 11 others have applied for certification. Also, a new Canadian importer, N. J. Douek & Sons, has joined the list of registered companies and a German buyer is in process of registration. The system welcomed its sixth certification ...

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Global Newsfairtrade: fairtrademarkus: Fairtrade America, the CLAC (Latin...

fairtrade: fairtrademarkus: Fairtrade America, the CLAC (Latin American producer network), the NAPP (Asian producer network), Fairtrade Canada and Fairtrade International spent ...

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Fairtrade activists are being encouraged to march for smallholder farmers

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United KingdomFairtrade campaigns for hungry smallholder farmers

David Cameron is being urged to back smallholder farmers around the world during June’s G8 Summit in Northern Ireland.

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Global NewsFairtrade co-op in Honduras raises agriculture awareness with coffee schools

A Fairtrade co-operative in Honduras is attempting to reinvigorate young people's attention in coffee farming.

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SOPACDI, a co-operative, has helped farmers rebuild their lives

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Congo, Democratic Republic of theFairtrade helps give Congolese women a voice

A Fairtrade Congolese coffee co-operative has been helping farmers rebuild their lives after the violence and instability of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.

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Global NewsThe Co-operative Coffee Car

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The world's only 'Coffee Car' - powered by the waste product from coffee production - has buzzed its way into the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest car of its kind. Commissioned by The Co-operative Food to celebrate 10 years since it converted all its own-brand coffee to Fairtrade, the bean-powered car* reached speeds of 65.5 miles per hour and was presented with the accolade by an official from Guinness on Tuesday 19 February, at Woodford airfield, near Manchester.

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Global NewsA Visit to San Antonio del Nuevo Leon

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 ...

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BrazilThe Heart of Fair Trade: Farmers and Workers, Not Labels

The following article is from our friends at Fair World Project: Can you tell which of these “fair trade” coffees was grown on an estate? And does it matter? You may have ...

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Global Newsfairtrade: It’s coffee harvest time in much of the world. Here...

fairtrade: It’s coffee harvest time in much of the world. Here a farmer drops coffee cherries into his basket in in Yirgalem, Ethiopia. Photo from the Fairtrade certified Fero ...

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