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Just Us! Celebrates Women in Agriculture

As part of International Women's day last Saturday, Just Us! Coffee announced that they will be celebrating women in agriculture throughout 2014. The co-operative will release a number of limited edition coffees processed and sold by the women producers of the Casil co-operative in Northern Peru. Forty three of the members at Casil are women, which is also run by the mother, wife, and farmer, Maximina Garcia Huancas.

Kathy Day of Just Us! wrote in a recent blog post, "Over the course of the years and many...

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City of Vancouver: Community leaders raise the bar for municipalities in Canada

"City of Vancouver: Community leaders raise the bar for municipalities in Canada" was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2014 edition of Fair Trade Magazine

BY BRYCE TARLING

Consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world, the City of Vancouver has also won several environmental awards and aims to be the world’s greenest city by the year 2020. But for Vancouver, green and...

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Ivorian farmer warns: If he dies, he won't grow any more cocoa

In a recent article at ConfectioneryNews.com, Oliver Nieburg wrote about a recent speaker at the ISM trade show. Fortin Bley, president of the Fairtrade Africa Cocoa Network and secretary general of the CANN co-op in the Ivory Coast, talked about the difficulties faced by cocoa farmers. He poignantly stated, "If I live, I can produce cocoa. If I die, I will produce no more cocoa. You will not...

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Fairly Caffeinated: new blog series from Fair Trade Toronto

Carissa Vados, recent addition to the Fair Trade Toronto team, has started a new blog, where she'll be exploring Toronto and writing about two of her great passions: coffee and fair trade.

Taking on Canada's largest urban landscape, she'll be visiting a number of coffee shops serving fair trade coffee and other products and sharing her experiences.

As an advocate for fair trade, having worked with Fair Trade Vancouver in achieving its Fair Trade designation in 2011, she has also worked with Engineers Without Borders and spent time in Africa learning about the positive impacts...

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Fairtrade Producer now chair of the Fairtrade International Board

Marike de Peña, former Vice Chair, is the Director of Banelino, a 400-member banana co-operative in the Dominican Republic, and has recently been elected to chair the Fairtrade International Board.

The development follows in the trend of including more producers in the decision-making bodies at Fairtrade International. Last year, the General Assembly was restructured so that producers held 50 percent of votes.

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