04 May 2012 The 2012 edition of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Year Book Australia reflects on the National Year of Reading, the Australian Year of the Farmer and the International Year of Co-operatives. This is an important moment for Australian co-operatives to take centre stage as a business model of scale deserving of statisical mapping. The 2012 edition of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Year Book Australia reflects on the National Year of ...

The Fair Trade Federation announced that 4 new members, all fully committed to Fair Trade, have joined in the past few months: MarketPlace: Handwork of India was a founding member of FTF, and has worked with artisan cooperatives in India for over 25 years.  www.marketplaceindia.com Level Ground Trading offers coffee, dried fruit, and sugar direct from small farmer cooperatives in six countries.  www.levelground.com Ayindisa is a retailer working directly with artisan groups in Ghana. More at ...