By: Akhila Vijayaraghavan Chocolate like coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is also provides some very important CSR and sustainability issues for companies that deal with chocolate. Chocolate has its origins with the cacao tree, native to Central and South America. Today however, about 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in Africa. The history of chocolate goes back to the [...]
By: Laura Stump For as much as I love my morning cup of coffee, I know very little about what it takes for it to get from the plant to my cup. But thanks to the people of Café Justo, I’m seeing the whole process! Café Justo is dedicated to providing a fair price to coffee growers so they can live and [...]
Kai Coffee is a fair trade and ethically sourced coffee. They have a purpose and passion to bring kids out of poverty. Kai Coffee donates 100% of its net profit to non-profit organizations dedicated to helping children in need. Kai Coffee is not just a regular brew, it’s coffee with a story. Hear what the founder Sean Naus has to [...]
By: Laura Stump Salvador Urbina is straight out of a fairytale. Towering, mist-coated mountains surround a valley of colorful churches and houses, interspaced with tropical flowers and fruit trees that give shade to community members who stop to visit with one another on their way down the road.And trust me—there’s always someone to visit with in Urbina. Most days, I take a [...]
Three Avocados is a non-profit organization that is fighting to ending the global water crisis, starting with Uganda. We aim to provide coffee lovers with a product that enables them to make a 100% socially responsible choice when purchasing coffee. Interview with Joe Koenig: What is Three avocados doing? Three Avocados is a non-profit coffee company, selling premium coffee from [...]
By: Julie Fahnestock Part 2 of a multi-series post The majority of consumers who consider themselves “ethical shoppers” are most likely to be familiar with the term, “fair trade.” An ethical consumer is also likely to know about the history of exploitation of small farmers behind the coffee, bananas, sugar and tea industries. The average, ethical consumer, however, is unlikely [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra Coffee is a high consumption export product in many Latin American countries. Consumers may be aware of the disparity between how much they pay for a cup of coffee and how much the coffee farmers in far away countries may make, but perhaps they don’t realise that what they pay may be more even than their [...]
Continued from Part One Photo Credit, Arvind Balaraman Looking at two highly traded commodities, coffee and cocoa, we can see how the profit-only mindset can cause a crisis in the lives of the raw material producers and the countries they live in. Coffee is one of the world’s most traded commodities, and has been since the 1800’s. Entire communities in [...]
By: Ben Gleason Doi Chaang Coffee is a unique partnership between Canadian businessmen and the chief of the Doi Chaang village of North Thailand. They believe strongly in sustainable agriculture, organic growing methods, and fairly traded coffee. I encourage you to look at their website, you will be shocked at how much information they provide about the owners, the workers, [...]
by: Ellen Friedland, Producer Photo and video courtesy of “Delicious Peace Grows In A Ugandan Coffee Bean”, www.deliciouspeacethemovie.com 1. You can buy “Delicious Peace” coffee (www.deliciouspeace.com) after watching the documentary and seeing some of the ways that you can really affect positive changes in these farmers’ lives. 2. You can buy other Fair Trade products as often as possible. [...]
