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„International relief and development agencies have cited this collapse of coffee prices as the cause of widespread hunger, unemployment and the loss of farms in coffee growing regions worldwide. Equal Exchange, the pioneer and U.S. market leader in fair trade coffee since 1991, is a full service provider of specialty, organic, fair trade coffee, premium tea and instant hot cocoa to 2,000 supermarkets, natural food stores, restaurants, colleges and 1,500 places of worship across North America. One hundred percent of Equal Exchange's products are fairly traded, and the firm offers the world's widest selection of fairly traded coffee, along with four varieties of organic, fair trade tea, and the first cocoa mix to carry the Fair Trade Certified Label. More information about Equal Exchange is available at www.equalexchange.com/PR“

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Global Exchange : Pursuing Justice One Cup at a Time (#)

„If me buying coffee is helping to impoverish farmers in Central America, then I am not living according to my faith." With concerns growing about globalized trade, faith groups across the country increasingly are connecting their java habit to their faith life by getting involved with the decades-old fair-trade movement. Last year, 5,187 congregations nationwide bought 212 tons of coffee, tea and cocoa from Equal Exchange, a Massachusetts-based organization that distributes fair-trade products, compared with the 2,895 congregations that purchased 124 tons in 2002. The fair-trade movement, which began in the 1940s, is a global coalition of laborers, purchasers, relief agencies and human rights groups that aims to raise the standard of living for agricultural workers and artisans in developing countries by ensuring that they get fair prices for their product, be it coffee, tea, cocoa, bananas, carved wooden trinkets or woven baskets. That price is always higher than the world market's prevailing price.“

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BBC - h2g2 - The Fairtrade Mark (#)

„It challenges the conventional model of international trade, offering a progressive alternative for a sustainable future.In the global free market, producers are too often exploited by those companies controlling world markets. Receiving a fairer price means they can have some of the many things consumers in the developed world take for granted, such as education for their children, an unpolluted environment, decent working conditions, a stable income and affordable health care, raising the standard of living for all the community.What's different about working with Equal Exchange is that we send our coffee directly to them without intermediaries. The extra money our cooperatives receive makes a difference in medicines and nurseries to care for our children. - Mateo Rendon of FESACORA1UCIRI (the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region), located in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, was the first group of farmers in Mexico to export coffee through the fair trade model.“

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Organic News Winter/Spring 1999 (#)

„Consider Equal Exchange for example—a coffee importer in Canton, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange is the fair trade coffee importer of the United States, importing 100% of its coffee according to European standards. These standards establish the following trade criteria: producers must be organized into democratically-run farmers' cooperatives; importers must pay a guaranteed minimum price that covers production costs and ensures a profit (including a premium that is to be used in consultation with the producers for their social and economic benefit); importers must arrange for advanced payment; importers must commit to a long-term trading agreement with the co-op.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„These more idealistic partnerships typically involve a roaster entering into an agreement with representatives of groups of small-holding peasant growers that funnels some of the selling price of the coffee toward various projects that directly support the growers: better schools, medical facilities, and so on. This definition of relationship coffee was first promoted by coffee leaders like Paul Katzeff at Thanksgiving Coffee, David Griswold (now president of the green coffee importer Sustainable Harvest), the leaders of Equal Exchange (which has two relationship coffees reviewed this month), and many others. Recently the relationship concept has been pursued on behalf of small groups of Colombian growers with particular vigor by Alejandro Renjifo of Fairfield Trading, who facilitated two of the Colombian relationship coffees reviewed this month.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Notes: Equal Exchange is a worker-owned cooperative founded in 1986 to, as the Equal Exchange website describes it, "... create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles." All Equal Exchange coffees are purchased from Fair-Trade certified cooperatives with which Equal Exchange has long and close relationships. In the case of this organically grown Peru, support includes regular and ongoing training. Visit www.equalexchange.com or call 774-776-7400 for more information.“

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Tea & Coffee 02/00 - Coffee Quality (cont.) (#)

„Other companies like Adam’s Organics, Taylor Maid Organics and Beantrees Café, among numerous other “organic-only” companies, have built their definition of quality around taste together with the environmental responsibility of organic production. Companies like Thanksgiving Coffee and Equal Exchange have created an image of quality based on taste in conjunction with social justice issues. Their success has been based on making quality coffees “with a conscience” more accessible to consumers, and then educating consumers about these issues - a recipe that has also proven successful in the European market for more than a decade.“

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Amazon.com: Books: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (#)

„After shipping and processing the product arrives here at market where "cosmopolitan consumers routinely pay half a day's Third World wages for a good cup of coffee." Along these same lines Pendergrast talks about a movement in the speciality coffee sector towards the idea of "fair trade" coffee which seeks - in the slogan of one of the companies - to offer "Not Just A Cup, But A Just Cup". Equal Exchange in the US and Max Havelaar Quality Mark coffee in Europe are the best known groups that say we should consider human rights issues when choosing a brand.“

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CRS Fair Trade (#)

„CRS Fair Trade Notes: Equal Exchange is a Fair Trade pioneer: it was one of the first Fair Trade coffee dealers in the United States, is the only one organized as a worker-owned cooperative, and boasts the country's largest Interfaith Coffee Program. CRS wishes to give special thanks to Equal Exchange for its instrumental role in bringing us into a deeper engagement with Fair Trade coffee through our participation in the Interfaith Coffee Program.“

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Untitled Document (#)

„Fair Trade coffee farmers got a big boost recently when Catholic Relief Services announced an initiative aimed at boosting sales of Fair Trade Certified coffee among the nation's 65 million Catholics. The partnership with Equal Exchange will encourage 19,000 Catholic parishes in the US to make a difference through education and purchasing. Click here for the write-up in USA Today.“

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Transfair USA | Fair Trade Month Highlights 2004 (#)

„In Portland, Arminda was joined by Ecuadorian banana grower Jovany Coronel for a private media tasting hosted by Stumptown Coffee Roasters, with banana, coffee, and chocolate-enhanced treats by Portland’s own Chef Greg Higgins. Oregon’s Tao of Tea and chocolate products from Dagoba and Equal Exchange were also featured. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Nell Newman held a media tasting at Sustainable Harvest.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„All coffees are Fair-Trade certified and certified organically grown. Equal Exchange is a worker-owned cooperative founded in 1986 to, as the Equal Exchange website describes it, "... create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles." Visit www.equalexchange.com or call 774-776-7400 for more information.“

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Lutherans Pursue Good Coffee, Fairly - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief (#)

„The challenge is a way Women of the ELCA can uphold the Lutheran World Relief Coffee Project and Equal Exchange, said Goldberger. Equal Exchange will track coffee sales from October 2003 to September 2004. Lutheran Woman Today will feature stories about fair trade coffee and other fair trade projects supported by Lutherans. The magazine will also track sales on its Web site -- http://www.elca.org/wo/lwt/ .“

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World Bank Research - Working Papers (#)

„The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange rate regime with the market rate more than four times the official rate, and domestic energy subsidies equal to about 90 percent of the cost of energy products. Many of these policies were justified as helping the poor.“

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„Fair-trade organizations and wholesalers, such as Equal Exchange, deal directly with farmers, cutting out the middlemen, and guarantee a minimum price that ensures a living wage even if the world price for coffee drops. Equal Exchange buys from 15 farm cooperatives and sells to retailers such as Louisville's Just Creations.“

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Fairtrade | Food and drink | Coffee | Buy (#)

„Equal Exchange Organic Ethiopian Beans, Organic Ethiopian Roast & Ground Coffee, Organic Dark Roast Roast & Ground, Organic Decaffeinated Roast & Ground, Organic Medium Roast Beans, Organic Medium Roast Roast & Ground, Organic Espresso Beans, Colombian Beans, Organic Colombian Roast & Ground, Organic Sumatran Beans“

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Approval of Code of Conduct for Internal Dealing (#)

„More specifically, it envisages disclosure to the market of such transactions (a) for amounts equal to or exceeding EUR 50,000 within 10 stock-exchange dealing days after the end of each calendar quarter (the standard tracking period) or (b) immediately (and in any case within the first stock-market dealing day after receipt of notification) for transactions exceeding EUR 250,000.“

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Global Exchange : Albertsons to carry 'fair trade' coffee (#)

„According to Equal Exchange, fair trade certification guarantees consumers that the coffee they purchase comes from democratically organized cooperatives of small farmers that were paid a just price for their crop. The organization said millions of other coffee farming families have struggled during the last two years as world coffee prices have reached 100-year lows.“

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JAMA -- Abstract: Physician Gender Effects in Medical Communication: A Meta-analytic Review, August 14, 2002, Roter et al. 288 (6): 756 (#)

„Context Physician gender has been viewed as a possible source of variation in the interpersonal aspects of medical practice, with speculation that female physicians facilitate more open and equal exchange and a different therapeutic milieu from that of male physicians. However, studies in this area are generally based on small samples, with conflicting results.“

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Equal Exchange - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief (#)

„Equal Exchange workers (who are also owners of our company) receive a fair share of pay and benefits—and the internal pay ratio from highest to lowest is limited to just 3 to 1. (This is in contrast to a national average in which corporate CEOs can make 100 times their lowest paid workers.)“

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CoffeeGeek - Members: Cafe and Bean Reviews, La Colombe - Philadelphia (#)

„For what it's worth, I used to work at Stellar (only for a short period of time....their coffee aesthetic was non-existent) and they use Equal Exchange coffees, NOT La Colombe. On my days off from Stellar, I would enjoy my coffee at La Colombe, in my opinion a far superior establishment.“

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Global Exchange : "Java for Justice" (#)

„Equal Exchange was founded several years ago "to create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles," says literature put out by the exchange, based in Canton, Mass.“

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Amazon.com: Books: Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (#)

„Need to move mailboxes (you've done it dozens of times---two years ago), its here. This book gives equal time to both Exchange and Outlook, not something you find everywhere. It is what it is. Don't expect it to be more and you'll be glad that you got it.“

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clamor (#)

„Transfairusa.org can send you helpful fact sheets and visual aids. And here are two sources for oh-so-delicious fair trade coffee: Cooperative Coffees and Equal Exchange.“

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The Equal Exchange Mission (#)

„Equal Exchange’s partners are small farmer co-ops that are governed by the farmers themselves. They are dedicated to the equitable distribution of income and the provision of other services, such as healthcare and education.“

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Fairtrade | Food and drink |Tea | Buy (#)