By Leif Rawson-Ahern, Tea Supply Chain Developer
On September 8, the BBC posted a heartbreaking account of the living and working conditions at the Doomur Dullung plantation, in Assam, India. BBC journalists uncovered tea plantation workers and their families living and working in shocking conditions. They found workers living in dilapidated homes with no access to toilets and drinking water contaminated by raw sewage. Child labor violations, dangerous working conditions, and rampant malnutrition and disease were all too-commonly reported and verified.
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Small Farmers Big ChangeSeptember 28, 2015 -
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Small Farmers Big ChangeSeptember 10, 2015
What 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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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?
Watch this 4-minute video and then tell us your response.