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Leif Rawson-AhernSeptember 14, 2015Categories: -
Small Farmers Big ChangeSeptember 10, 2015What does it mean to create change with your everyday choices? We believe that something as simple as the coffee you drink or the chocolate you eat can have an effect on the planet and our global community, and you have the power to make that effect a positive one.
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Ruthie OlandAugust 27, 2015 -
Ruthie OlandAugust 26, 2015Categories: -
Carly KadlecAugust 17, 2015Categories: -
Small Farmers Big ChangeAugust 9, 2015
For years now, our small farmer co-op partners have been struggling to keep their land, continue farming, supply us with high quality products, provide food for their families, and earn a dignified livelihood. They have to do this for the most part without support from public or private sectors. Governments have generally disinvested in agriculture, particularly small scale agriculture, banks don’t lend to campesinos or small-scale co-operative enterprises, resources for training and technical assistance are virtually non-existent.
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Small Farmers Big ChangeAugust 7, 2015
Yesterday, Lincoln Neal wrote about last week’s arctic drilling protest on Portland’s Willamette River. This morning we hear another account of the demonstration…. this time from one of the kayakactivists, Equal Exchange’s Meghan Huebner.
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Small Farmers Big ChangeAugust 6, 2015
The following post was written by Lincoln Neal, Equal Exchange worker-owner in our Portland, Oregon office.
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Small Farmers Big ChangeAugust 3, 2015
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What’s the relationship of these two photos to each other and to climate change?
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Small Farmers Big ChangeJuly 27, 2015
Last week our friends at the Coop Food Stores in Hanover-Lebanon, New Hampshire sent us these photos of a large display they have created to promote our exciting coffee partnership in which we attempt to link consumer coop members in New Hampshire, worker coop members at Equal Exchange, and indigenous small farmer coop members in Chiapas, Mexico.