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What is Fair Trade

What is Fair Trade? Fair trade is not about charity. It is a holistic approach to empowerment for producers and creating a sustainable, worldwide marketplace.

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Mexican Coffee farmers

Mexico is the chief coffee supplier to the U.S., the worlds top coffee consumers, but the vast majority of Mexican coffee farmers live in deserate poverty.

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Guatemalan Coffee Crisis

Guatemalan Coffee Crisis...coffee is Guatemala's biggest export. So why is there a crisis and how can we stop it?

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Fair Trade Coffee

Buying fair trade coffee is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make a difference in millions of peoples' lives.

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Fair Trade and Tea

Fair trade and tea have not been in the spotlight until recently, until 2005 saw an unprecedented growth in fair trade tea consumption of 187%. Tea farmers need your support!

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Buy Fair Trade Coffee

Here is a list of my top ten surprising mainstream places to buy fair trade coffee.

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Chocolate Slavery

Chocolate Slavery. Nearly half of the world's cocoa comes from Cote d'Ivoire where children are forced into slavery to work on cocoa farms.

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Crossing Borders Fair Trade

Find out how you can make a difference in the word. Buy sweatshop free clothes, slave free chocolate and find sources for everything Fair Trade!

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Making a Difference

There are so many ways of making a difference to impoverished people around the world. Here are some ideas and inspiration.

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Climbing for Kids

Climbing for kids with Bay Area Wilderness Training is an Oakland, California non-profit organization whose mission is to create opportunities for urban youth to experience wilderness.first hand.

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