October is fair trade month according to Transfair USA.
Today is Spread the Word!
Make sure that all of your friends and family members know that it’s Fair Trade Month:
Post “Happy Fair Trade Month! Learn more at www.fairtrademonth.org” in your Twitter status or Facebook status.
Also:
Become a fan of Fair Trade Certified on Facebook
Follow @FairTradeUSA on Twitter
Add www.Fair-trade-coffee-review.com [...]
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 formed [...]
This is a brief description of what fair trade and fair trade certification are.
Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace. Fair Trade is much more than a fair price though!
