Archive for August, 2009
Choose Fairtrade Liberation Nuts!
Lisa Zaslow is a guest blogger and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society.
Lisa is a passionate fair trade and microfinance activist currently living in North Carolina, USA. She is the founder of Blue People Fair Trade Ltd., an online store that specializes [...]
Spotlight on Fairtrade Businesses – Jurang Fairtrade
Each week, Shared Interest will highlight a business who is activiely promoting Fairtrade in their community. This blog post does not imply endorsement by Shared Interest. Please contact us if you would like the ’spotlight’ on your company.
Jurang Fairtrade is a 100% dedicated office supplier, supplying Fairtrade coffee and tea to businesses, organisations [...]
Business Training for Rwandan Fair Trade Producers
During a busy 10 days in Rwanda Andrea Wilkinson visited six producer organisations, met several stakeholders of the project, presented at the trainer graduation day and saw 5,000 trees that had been planted as a result of the environmental training by one of the producer groups.
“The evaluation trip was a great success, it was incredibly [...]
Fairtrade in Amsterdam
I’ve just returned to work after an interrailing holiday round Europe. One of my stops was Holland, home to Max Havelaar, a Dutch fairtrade company. Max Havelaar was the first initiative, under the development agency Solidaridad, to launch a fairtrade label back in 1988. For more information see http://www.maxhavelaar.ch/en
Anyone planning a visit to Amsterdam could follow in [...]
Fairtrade Customer Spotlight – Cocagi Coffee Cooperative
Another coffee co-operative in Rwanda, the third in nine months, has started to use Shared Interest’s export credit facilities, a demonstration of Shared Interest’s growing reputation in that country.
COCAGI is located in the Gishoma district of western Rwanda (the name stands for Co-operative des caféculteurs de Gishoma). It started with just 22 members in 2003 [...]