Indonesia
Indonesia
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AgricultureHow Fairtrade helped my fight for women’s rights
As Britain celebrates Fairtrade Fortnight, we look at the impact the movement is having around the world. Writing for Fairtrade International’s website, coffee farmer María Edy Rivera describes how working for a growers’ co-op supported by...
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DevelopmentFair Trade Certification Marks 25th Anniversary
In 1988 Frans van der Hoff, a Dutch missionary, along with a Dutch economist named Nico Roozen the development agency, Solidaridad, launched the Max Havelaar label, named after a fictional character who opposed the exploitation...
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Lutheran World Relief and Fair Trade USA Collaborate to Strengthen Cooperatives in Indonesia
In conventional trade, middlemen take advantage of the small-scale farmer’s weak negotiating power and limited access to market, and pay unfairly low prices that barely cover the cost of farming. This leaves no money for...
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Fish from the land make a comeback in Aceh – CCA International Dispatch
Beleaguered by civil war, natural disasters and years of isolation from the world, small producers remain the backbone of the economy in Aceh, Indonesia. Co-operatives are bringing new prosperity to 2,000 marginalized entrepreneurs in two...
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Development
FLO & Coffee Producers Take Actions to Overcome Challenges in Market
Reacting to turmoil in coffee markets over the past two years, Fairtrade International (FLO) has sponsored several actions as part of a Coffee Action Plan introduced in November 2010.
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DemocracyMy vision for the 21st Century Movement
If you take some of the images I have just encountered in a visit to Sri Lanka and Indonesia and couple them with African poverty and the ravages of HIV/Aids, one begins to see the...