Archive for the 'Fair Trade' Category

 The Fair Trade Labeling Organization International (FLO) has increased the price for Fair Trade Coffee! FLO sets the minimum price for Fair Trade coffee and, effective this June, increased the price to $1.25/lb. The price increase is the result of extensive field research into the real costs of sustainable coffee production, which indicated that an adjustment [...]

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And the Fair Trade travels continue! Just because World Fair Trade Day is over doesn’t mean the fun has to end. Last weekend our CRS Southwest office hosted a Fair Trade training in their hometown of San Antonio and invited me down to help out. We were so fortunate to be hosted by the San [...]

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As Jackie hangs out in California this week, today we remember when she trekked across the world to Ghana with the Raise Money Right contest winners. Check out our new video of their trip and visit CRS Ghana programming, the cocoa famers of Kuapa Kokoo and basket weavers at Trade Aid.

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Read the entry: Reaching Across the World II →

I’m using the down time of post-World Fair Trade Day events to catch up on some reading, and I see the crew at Oke bananas have launched a new website. With their usual paradigm-busting thinking and quirky humor, these tireless advocates for justice and purveyors of tasty bananas offer readers an introduction into the [...]

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The backs have been slapped in congratulations, the hugs of accomplishment exchanged, the coffee mugs rinsed, the crafts packed up, and the soup refrigerated for another day. Such is the satisfying aftermath of a World Fair Trade Day event.

Yesterday I was fortunate to be with the good folks at San Diego Friends of Fair [...]

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During the opening ceremony of the 2008 SCAA in Minneapolis, MN, Bill Fishbein, owner of CRS coffee partner Coffee Exchange and founder of Coffee Kids, made a presentation on the 20th anniversary of Coffee Kids, an organization which helps coffee-growing families improve the quality of their lives. He made the simple but challenging statement that [...]

Read the entry: Specialty Coffee’s Return to Its Roots →

Part of my Sunday morning routine is listening to the Speaking of Faith public radio program. Yesterday I was especially pleased that the guest was Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner who started the Green Belt Movement. The movement began by organizing women who were living the impacts of deforestation through the [...]

Read the entry: Planting the Future →

That’s the slogan for this year’s World Fair Trade Day. As a proud sponsor of World Fair Trade Day here in the United States, CRS Fair Trade is proud to support the activities large and small to make the world a bit fairer through participating in economic justice activities.
On the fun side, we are [...]

Read the entry: Isn’t it Time We Made the World Fair? →

The Pope has been visiting, the Fair Trade Federation had its conference, and now we are all gearing up for World Fair Trade Day. Spring has sprung at CRS Fair Trade!
Our friends at TransFair USA have also reminded us that this Mother’s Day falls only one day after World Fair Trade Day [...]

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As Katy and I hurry to clear off our desks before heading to the Fair Trade Federation conference, I almost forgot this week is National Farmworker Awareness week. Luckily a new report, Children in the Fields: An American Problem, from my colleagues at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, jogged my memory and motivated [...]

Read the entry: Justice for Farmworkers, in the United States too →