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23 May '12

Content about South America

Fair Trade helps keep kids in school

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Global NewsFair Trade USA and Partners Deliver Record Impact to Farmers in 2011

Fair Trade USA, a non-profit organization and the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, recently released its 2011 Almanac, an annual ...

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PeruEqual Exchange At the Presidential Palace – Lima, Peru

Yesterday you read how Jessie Myszka represented Equal Exchange on a visit with other co-op leaders to the White House to discuss the role of co-operatives in our economy and how ...

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Brazilfairtrade: Fairtrade Liaison Officer José Gomez visited producers in Brazil and shared this story...

fairtrade: Fairtrade Liaison Officer José Gomez visited producers in Brazil and shared this story from the field. Fairtrade International has a network of 50 liaison officers to ...

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Global NewsCo-operatives co-operate for a better economy

The word that crops up most often in the speeches of government ministers about development policy is ‘business’. It is worth asking, perhaps, what kind of business they mean. Doing business with foreign multinationals was once described to me as feeling like being a minnow in the sea when the sharks are around. What the sharks say is: “It is a free market, so let’s trade. You take a bite out of me and I will take one out of you.” This may be business, but it is not about ...

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Global NewsCo-operatives co-operate for a better economy

Co-operatives take the ‘one member, one vote’ rather than ‘one dollar, one vote’ principle around the world from Argentina to Uganda . . .

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PeruA World of Difference: Fair Trade in the Banana Industry

In October 2011, Equal Exchange and Oke USA took a group of produce managers and buyers from food co-operatives in the midwest to northern Peru to visit some of our banana co-op ...

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Global NewsCanadian Worker Co-op Resource Guide 2012

From the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation A worker co-operative is an employee-owned business which is run according to theco-operative principles, such as democratic member ...

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PeruA Fair Trade, Organic Banana Life Cycle

The following photographic story by Dean Schladweiler is reprinted from the Wedge Co-operative newsletter. A Fair Trade, Organic Banana Life Cycle In October 2011, Dean ...

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PeruFinding Common Ground in Peru

This article first appeared in The Exchange on February 6, 2012. By Jessica Jones-Hughes, Equal Exchange Bananas You may have heard about food co-op general managers, employees, ...

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Members of Swaziland Indigenous Products dry marula nuts, to extract oil from for skin care products

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Global NewsWorld’s only fair trade lender gives communities a lifeline

Providing financial support to people in need overseas at a time when household budgets are stretched at home is a challenge for any organisation.

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