Archive for the 'Coffee' Category

As Catholic Relief Services expands its work with small-holder coffee farmers, we’re learning more and more about the benefits and limitations of certification systems and returning to the question of how to make coffee the means to a sustainable livelihood for coffee farmers. Our fully-committed partners on the CRS Coffee Project demonstrate it is possible [...]

Read the entry: Beyond Fair Trade →

A very timely greeting from our colleague Michael Sheridan, based in Guatemala:
Happy Earth Day from Latin America! Today Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced it selected our entry in the Changing Climate Change as one of four winners! We want to thank everyone who logged onto JustMeans over the last month or so to [...]

Read the entry: Climate Contest Update: CRS wins! Farmers win! →

Last week we e-mailed our Fair Trader newsletter that comes out every two months. If you didn’t receive it, please subscribe! This month we featured a variety of stories about CRS Fair Trade:
* Breaking the Record: The World’s Biggest Coffee Break
* Raising Money Right with Fair Trade Chocolate
* Fair Trade = Good News
* [...]

Read the entry: Your Fair Trader has arrived, in Spanish too! →

In recent weeks, CRS Fair Trade partners have received a lot of attention. Katy told you about our coffee partner, Pura Vida, being featured on the PBS News Hour. The next weekend at the Fair Trade Federation conference, our craft and chocolate partner, SERRV, received the “Outstanding Service to the Fair Trade Community” [...]

Read the entry: Proud of the Company We Keep →

A big thank you to everyone that voted in the first round of the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Challenge! Thanks to your votes we’ve advanced to the second round and are even closer to winning $200,000 to help coffee farmers respond to the effects of climate change.
Below you’ll find all the details of our [...]

Read the entry: March Madness: Help CRS (and the farmers we serve) score a big win! →

When you turn on the radio and hear about nation-wide job loss, perhaps even in your own family, or when you read about long-standing struggles with diseases like TB, you may feel discouraged and uncertain.  Fair Trade gives us some good news to share, along with proven ways to build an economy for everyone.
This year [...]

Read the entry: Celebrating Fair Trade Success at Home and Worldwide →

Yesterday I mentioned Catholic Relief Services’ national and regional plans for World Fair Trade Day and encouraged you to get started on your own events.  Of course, we try to practice what we preach here at CRS Fair Trade! Here’s what we’ve cooked up:
Despite being a very multicultural organization, CRS Fair Trade is going to [...]

Read the entry: Fair Trade Ideas for World Fair Trade Day May 9th →

Pura Vida, CRS Fair Trade coffee partner in Seattle, was featured on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer last night. I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how the economy will affect Fair Trade generally and our partners specifically. We had a good example last week of how Nectar of Life, our partner in [...]

Read the entry: Pura Vida on the Jim Lehrer Newshour →

Catholic Relief Services works in about 100 countries and in many of those same places tens of thousands of people will take a Fair Trade break on May 9: World Fair Trade Day.  From coffee cupping to drumming circles to health screenings, Fair Traders use the second Saturday of May as a rallying point to [...]

Read the entry: Are You Ready for May 9th? Catholic Relief Services Is! →

It’s no secret that I think our coffee partners are the best in the land, but if you need more than my word Nectar of Life has got it for you. They are launching a program called Feed The Farmers that helps folks in the U.S. affected by the recession still afford Fair Trade coffee, [...]

Read the entry: Feed The Farmers And Get Free Coffee →