CRS Fair Trade (#)
„When world coffee prices collapsed during the late 1990s, millions coffee farming households across the world experienced increased poverty, hunger and illness. In the most desperate cases, some household members made the difficult decision to migrate in search of work to capital cities already overburdened by rural migrants, or to the United States. In one particularly tragic incident, 14 migrants from the Mexican state of Veracruz died in the Arizona desert while trying to cross the U.S. border—most of them were coffee farmers who were unable to provide for their families with coffee prices at historic lows.“
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/what_is/ migration.htm - Cached
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„It ensures they have access to the credit and training they desperately need but cannot access under the current system. And Fair Trade rests on a firm foundation of right relationships that respect the human dignity of low-income producers overseas, promote economic justice and cultivate global solidarity.“
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/what_is/ advocacy.htm
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„CRS Fair Trade Notes: Coffee-Tea-Etc. has partnered with Rotary Club International and the Thomaston, CT, community a development project that has brought more than 40 wells for drinking water to San Luis Tontem in Guatemala.“
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/coffee_project/ map.htm
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„Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International“
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/what_is/ sealdeal.htm
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Global Exchange : Faith Organizations Throw Weight Behind 'Fair Trade' Coffee Movement
„Paul Rice, president and CEO of TransFair USA, the only fair-trade certification organization in the USA, says the CRS initiative can be significant even if the market potential through faith-based groups is a relatively small one.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 1309.html
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