Now that Yuri Friman has convinced Amherst Town Meeting to support his fair trade campaign, he plans to bring a Peruvian coffee-bean farmer to town, urge supermarkets to diversify their offerings and promote fair trade Hanukkah chocolates. (more…)
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Fair trade denotes decent wages and working conditions
November 12, 2007
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Newhouse News Service
Coffee beans at Starbucks, bananas at the grocery store, beaded jewelry at a local gift shop. The “fair trade” logo seems to be popping up all over.
And while you might like the sound of it who doesn’t want to play fair? do you know what the term really represents?
Stemming the blood behind the diamonds
November 10, 2007
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Financial Times (London, England)
Pg. 18 –With a US embargo on Burmese diamonds, horror stories of “dirty gold” and the forthcoming film Blood Diamond, in which stones are the currency of war, shopping for a trinket this Christmas could be tricky for the well-intentioned.
Unlike chocolates or coffee, there is to date no “fair trade” certified jewellery. (more…)
Amherst Becomes Nation’s Fourth Fair Trade Town
November 8, 2007
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Daily Hampshire Gazette
AMHERST - Town Meeting Wednesday made Amherst the fourth fair-trade
community in the nation, and the first in Massachusetts.
The fair-trade designation is intended to raise awareness of exploitation of
and unfair compensation to farmers producing the world’s coffee, chocolate,
tea, bananas and sugar. (more…)
‘Fair trade’ denotes decent wages and working conditions
November 8, 2007
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Newhouse News Service
Coffee beans at Starbucks, bananas at the grocery store, beaded jewelry at a local gift shop. The “fair trade” logo seems to be popping up all over.
And while you might like the sound of it who doesn’t want to play fair? do you know what the term really represents? (more…)
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps to Give Presentation on Its Fair Trade Program at San Francisco Green Festival
November 7, 2007
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PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Sunday, November 11th at the Green Festival in San Francisco, California Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps will present on our project to source all major ingredients in our world-renowned soaps from sources that are certified to Fair Trade and organic standards. (more…)
Best aid for Africa may be indirect; Managing Globalization
November 7, 2007
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The International Herald Tribune
SECTION: FINANCE; Pg. 15
The International Herald Tribune’s global economics columnist, Daniel Altman, recently moderated an online discussion about foreign aid between readers and Jagdish Bhagwati, a leading trade theorist at Columbia University and senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Here are some of the questions and excerpts from his responses. (more…)
Choteau native helps combat poverty and save a wonder by selling rice
November 4, 2007
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Great Falls Tribune
Mary Hensley was a 22-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from Choteau, when she climbed on a military truck bound for the Philippines’ lush Cordillera Mountains.
She disembarked high in the ancient rice terraces, known to tourists as the stepping stones to the sky, or the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Little did she know she was stepping into a simmering civil war.
“They didn’t tell us these things when we got dropped off,” Hensley recalled.
But she came armed — with iodized salt.
Her mission: To fight the goiters that bulged from the necks of villagers, particularly women, mired in poverty and malnutrition. (more…)
Fair play as Alexander enters the Dragons’ Den
November 3, 2007
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The Herald (Glasgow)
DOUGLAS Alexander entered the Dragons’ Den yesterday to raise awareness of fair trade in Glasgow.
The embattled minister, heavily criticised for the fiasco of the spoiled ballot papers at May’s election, visited Lourdes Secondary School to judge a contest based on the BBC2 programme, where would-be entrepreneurs bid for money from millionaire business moguls.
Students from secondary schools Hillhead, Hyndland, Lourdes, Holyrood and St Margaret Mary’s made brief presentations about the fair trade groups they have set up in the hope of winning some money for their venture. (more…)
New Fair Trade Certification Available in the US by The Institute for Marketecology (IMO)
November 1, 2007
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www.prweb.com
Responding to the growing demand for fairly traded products and those produced with socially responsible practices, IMO, one of the most prominent certifiers for organic products and quality management systems in the world, has developed and made available a new standard for Fair Trade certification, called “Fair for Life”. (more…)