Fair Trade is trade that satisfies criteria re. the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers and other social and environmental considerations. It's part of an organized social movement which promotes standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in commerce between developed and undeveloped countries.
ADDIS ABABA/WASHINGTON DC - December 6, 2007 - Ethiopia is demonstrating that a producing country can reach globally to create a network of licensed distributors and co-promoters of its fine coffees. In 2004 Ethiopia began the process of seeking trademarks for some of...
ADDIS ABABA/JERSEY - December 5, 2007 - A long-standing member of the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe and active in the Fairtrade Federation, the coffee and tea merchant Cooper & Co. has joined Ethiopia's network of licensed distributors. The company is based in...
WEST BRIDGEWATER, MA - December 4, 2007 - Fast Company magazine announced today that they have awarded one of its fifth annual Social Capitalist Awards to Equal Exchange, the worker co-operative best known for its pioneering work in Fair Trade foods and beverages....
ADDIS ABABA/LONDON - December 4, 2007 - As the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia has a unique coffee heritage and many of its coffees hold the reputation of being best coffee in the world. Yet the farmers who produce and harvest this crop do...
November 29, 2007 - Coffee is more than just a drink. It is about politics, survival, the earth and the lives of indigenous peoples.…He has a rich knowledge of the people and places of coffee, and knows how to tell our stories in...
LONDON and ADDIS ABABA - November 16 2007 - A London based independent coffee importer, D.R. Wakefield (DRW), has joined the network of licensed distributors for Ethiopia's trademarked coffees of Sidamo, Yirgacheffe, Harar/Harrar. D.R. Wakefield has already shown its willingness to be an...
ADDIS ABABA - October 9, 2007 - At an exuberant event at the Addis Ababa, 40 Ethiopian coffee exporters joined with H.E Yakob Yala, State Minister of Agriculture & Development and Mr Getachew Mengistie, Director General of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)...
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