Fair Trade Stories
Day 7 of Fair Trade month mentions that all of Dunkin’ Donut’s espresso drinks are Fair Trade Certified. The company has served 100% Fair Trade Certified espresso since 2003. From fairtrademonth.org: As you can imagine, this has made quite an impact: To date Dunkin’ Donuts has purchased more than 20 million pounds of coffee from [...]
Day 2 of Fair Trade month offers a wonderful story about Luis Adauto de Oliveira, a fair trade coffee farmer from Brazil. “Fair Trade has given us the ability to grow coffee the way it should be grown – sustainably, organically and with great concern for quality. Our families are fed, our children are in [...]
For those of you looking for a real life account of how the fair trade coffee process works and affects people, here is a brief story about fair trade in action. In the coffee growing mountains of Columbia, there is a co-op of 270 farming families called APCO (Asociación Pequeños Caficultores de Ocamonte) that was [...]