Transfair USA | Fair Trade News (#)

  „When a consumer in any of 17 countries--in Europe, North America, and Japan--buys a product with the fair-trade label, it means that the item was purchased from farmers in the developing world at an above-average price and in accordance with specific criteria set forth by Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO), a nongovernmental organization in Bonn, Germany. The consumer thus sometimes pays more for his product in the knowledge that the premium is improving living conditions in the Third World.“

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

  „His workshops and seminars on coffee sourcing and evaluation have been featured at professional coffee meetings in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Japan. In 1996, he was awarded a "Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Coffee Literature" by the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA).“

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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News

  „The sale of fair-trade-certified coffee on college and university campuses has been uplifting for the coffee industry, providing a sure channel through which fair-trade coffee can be distributed. And students-society's moral fighters-may turn out to play an important role in eventually ending the coffee crisis. Not only do students support fair-trade coffee by drinking it, they are also forming organizations and educating themselves on the positive social effects of fair trade.“

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Transfair USA | Fresh Fruit Program

  „In Europe, where Fair Trade Certified bananas have gained market share as high as 24 percent and are growing at a rate of over 50 percent per year, grocery retailers have found Fair Trade Certified bananas to be an answer to the "banana price wars" instigated by mass market retailers. Fair Trade certification is a powerful marketing tool that adds value to commodities, allowing retailers to choose the higher ground, both morally and financially.“

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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News

  „Wild Oats Markets has seen that traction in action. Wild Oats exclusively carries fair-trade coffee in its bulk coffee section and has seen bulk coffee sales increase 30 percent since last year. Chief Executive Perry Odak told a conference in June that this increase came despite the Boulder, Colo.-based retailer raising coffee prices by nearly $3 a pound. "The customers will vote with their dollars, and they voted to buy more coffee," Odak said.“

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

  „Certainly the Fair-Trade people have made some progress in this respect. Fewer than two years ago there were no Fair-Trade certified coffees whatsoever available from outside Spanish-speaking Latin America in the American market. Today there are three non-Latin-American Fair-Trade origins available in the U.S. - not an atlas-full of coffees, certainly, but a good start.“

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