Global Exchange : Pursuing Justice One Cup at a Time

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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