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Tiwun pdf

Adobe pdf file of Tiwun article

A Bolivian Cup of Fair Trade Coffee Competition:

A life of solidarity between communities

USFT Convergence

USFT Convergence Questions ‘FairWashing’ by Transnationals

Is this the end of organic coffee?

Thanks to a recent hush-hush USDA ruling, your clean-conscience, fair-trade, organic latte may soon be a thing of the past.

Third World program: Putting a face on your next cup of coffee - April/Americus Times Recorder

April 29, 2004 - AMERICUS, GA

Montreal Gazette

Here is an article from the Montreal gazette, as part of their "On the Coffee Trail: from Nicaragua to your Cup" series, discussing the place of fair trade in Montreal, focusing of course on our Montreal-based roaster member, Cafe Rico.

A Visit to Finca El Roble

Here is an article from the Montreal Gazette's "On the Coffee Trail: From Nicaragua to your Cup" series. They offer a small glimpse into the life of a fair trade coffee farm, one that is a part of CECOCAFEN, an umbrella group in Nicaragua from whom we import green coffee.

Slurping a Cup of Fair Trade

 

Bean Counting

The Pros and Cons of Fair-Trade Coffee

Behind the Label

As the fair-trade movement evolves, farmers, activists and others fear that the meaning of the term will become corrupted

Dean's Beans Sponsors Innovative Radio Show for Coffee Farmers

CRS wire article on the Coffee Talk radio program Deans Beans helped set up in Guatemala

Coffee and genocide

Sunday February 25, 2007 Observer Food Monthly From the Guardian UK This is a story about gourmet coffee and genocide. It takes place in Rwanda ...

Coffee Farmers in Americus

Foreign coffee growers plea for more fair trade

New Internationalist article

New Internationalist November 2006 • Issue 395 Ethical shopping / FAIR TRADE

Coffee Connection

Feature article in the Courier-Journal featuring producer partner Nahuala and a visit by Cooperative Coffees and Heine Brothers Co, in Louiville, Kentucky.

Clamor May03

Who's Paying For Your Fix: A Crop-to-Cup Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Your Morning Pick-Me-Up

Tiwun

A first export of Tiwun coffee (Tayrona Indigenous Federation) from the Arhuacos to Cooperative Coffees makes headlines in Colombia. by Lila Esther Silgado Villadiego of the Diario La República. Spanish version only.

courierA1

Coffee Connection PDF page 1 (front page of Courier Journal)

Third World program: Putting a face on your next cup of coffee

Published April 29, 2004 12:00 am - AMERICUS -- The next time you go to take a sip of your favorite cappuccino, try to sense more than the aroma. "Think a little deeper about who is behind the coffee," said Bill Harris Jr.

Deans Beans Organic Co.: Organic Growth

Take a peak at this great article looking at the growth and business style of one of our very own roaster members.

Fairtrade or fairly traded.pdf

 

Fair Trade or Fairly Traded

This is a great article that highlights the debates currently raging in Fair Trade circles: the place of multinationals, the role of FLO, and the minimum price of FT coffee. Many members are featured in the article, and Cooperative Coffees is given as an example of a player that is staying true to the integrity of the movement.

Fair Trade: Coffee, Chocolate & More

Higher Grounds trading Co. passed in a podcast from a Jesuit radio program called “Provoke” , dating from may 20th, 2007.

Spilling the beans on fair trade

Naomi Lightman. Sept 27th, 2007. This is a feature article on the ongoing discussion surrounding the future of fair trade, written by Naomi, an intern at Cooperative Coffees last year, for McGill University's student newspaper, The McGill Daily.

Food First report on Fair Trade

Institute for Food and Development Policy. DEVELOPMENT REPORT No 17.

Food First report

 

Higher Grounds post in greendealsdaily.com

greendealsdaily.com checked out some of Higher Ground's blends in the latest blog post, and came up with a winning review.

Choc tactics: Cocoa co-operatives

The Independent takes a look at Divine Chocolate, a fair trade chocolate company that truly embodies the meaning of fair trade-the producer coop that supplies the cocoa are actual owners of half the company.

Green LA Girl Review of Javatrekker

One of our members, Dean Cycon, founder of Dean's Beans, has written a book about his experiences traveling the world sourcing fair trade coffee. Green LA Girl blogger gives it a glowing review here.

Cultural Survival Quarterly 2005 Issue dedicated to Fair Trade

Fair Trade and Indigenous People. This issue was dedicated to fair trade, and attempted to dig deeper on all aspects of the fair trade movement, and how it relates to the realities of indigenous people.

Will Coffee Be a Casualty of Climate Change?

AlterNet article written by Dean Cycon of Deans Beans, on the effects of climate change on coffee and its producers.

Confronting the Coffee Crisis:Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America.

New book addresses and examines the issues surrounding the coffee trade from field to cup.

Co-Founders of Higher Grounds Trading Company to Visit Delaware

Article about Higher Grounds university visit.

Coffee Review gives Fondo Paez 95 pt score

Coop Coffees has a gem in our midst. Kickapoo's Fondo Paez roast just got the top slot on CoffeeReview.com with a whopping 95 point score. Congrats to Wilman and all the amazing Paez farmers! And to Caleb at Kickapoo and his endless cupping! Read on below for the full review.

Pura Vida Coffee wins support of the House

Seattle Times reports on Coop Coffees member Pura Vida's bid to sell coffee to the U.S. House of Representatives based on a gold old fashioned taste test.

Ethics on the high street: how Fairtrade changed lives

The Herald. February 19 2008, by REBECCA McQUILLAN.

Small-scale farmer coffee co-operative in solidarity with landless farm workers

CECOCAFEN given as an inspiring example of the role of fair trade cooperatives within a community.

UK-based Fairtrade Foundation Responds to Adam Smith Institute Report

The Adams Smith Institute think tank recently released a flawed report decrying the injustices and insufficiencies of fair trade. The Fairtrade Foundation gives a counterpoint of each of their arguments in this press release.

Does Fairtrade = Environmentally Friendly?

EcoSpace Conscious Community writes an article examining the environmental impact of importing fair trade goods in terms of their ecological footprint.

Tours to Fair-Trade Farms Help Coffee Sellers Spread Word

Wall Street Journal article on fair trade tours-highlighting Coop Coffees members Just Coffee, Higher Grounds, and Pura Vida-and their role in helping customers become fair trade ambassadors by seeing benefits first hand.

The Wall Street Journal’s Fair Trade Faux Pas

The Bean Activist blog reacts to the recent article in the WSJ on Fair Trade Travel, their free trade misnomer, and misguided interpretation that growth, and not justice, is the guiding force behind these efforts.

Triple Play: Peace Coffees New CEO emphasizes People,Planet, and Profits

 

TriplePlayPeaceCoffee.pdf

 

How Fair is Fairtrade?

In response to fair trade's skyrocketing popularity in the UK, this BBC article looks at the questions that have been asked (particularly by the Adams Smith Institute) on the effect fair trade has in the developing world, and finds the resulting increased self-sufficiency of producers.

Fairtrade vs food miles

A second look at the assumption that food that comes from farther away entails a higher carbon footprint, and what this means for fair trade.

World's Consumers Embrace Fair-Trade Marketing

This march 12th article by the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) looks at the growing success of fair trade marketing.

'Teach us how to fish - do not just give us the fish'

March 12th Guardian article that looks at the stories of three producers whose communities have been changed by becoming fair trade.

Fears grow that food inflation threatens Fairtrade

Interesting Guardian article looks at the rising prices of the commodities market, and the affect this might have on fair trade producer cooperatives.

Making Sense of Certification — Fair Trade, Direct Trade, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ, Whole Trade, and Organic.

March 30th 2008 Posted to Coffee Certification. Thorough overview of different coffee certifications and what they mean.

Coffee with a cause

Consumer Reports: Greener Choices, Products for a Better Planet. A look at the gamut of coffee labels, and how to distinguish between them.

A Wal-Mart PR Issue Brews Anew

Business Week. Retailing April 1, 2008, 6:35PM EST. The retailer's initiative to offer fair-trade coffee is pleasing environmentalists but reheating a debate over treatment of its workers

Regular, decaf or ethical?

Report on panel discussion at the University of Vermont titled "How Green Is Your Coffee?", featuring Monika Firl, producer relations at CoopCoffees, Mane Alves, CoopCoffees member and coffee cupper, and Ernesto Mendez, a UVM professor and contact for El Comanur cooperative in EL Salvador, looks the coffee crisis and the role fair trade plays in coffee producing countries.

Fair trade still striving to create an identity

April 26, 2008. More people beginning to recognize that fair trade is not necessarily free trade. This Vancouver Sun article looks at consumers' growing awareness of fair trade, and at the challenges that still lie ahead in terms of people's notions of fair trade goes beyond just a "fair price".

Fair Trade or fairly traded?

May 8, 2008. Minnesota Daily article discusses the coffee chain and coffee quality, citing Peace Coffee as an example of a true fair trader.