World of difference for Fairtrade as credit crunch takes its toll ...
[icanews.coop - the global co-operative news centre] "They call this Fairtrade," says Anthony Blay of Vrel, a Fairtrade co-operative with 250 hectares of banana and pineapple plantations in Ghana.
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[Eco-Chick] Help Fight Chocolate Extinction!: “There are three particular chocolate companies that have done an excellent job of developing the local communities and bringing in the farmers as stakeholders, meaning that in one particular company, Divine Chocolate, which is a company based out of England, but has just now begun sales across the United States, they have entered into a partnership with Kuapa Kokoo, which is a cocoa cooperative in Ghana. And the company itself is owned by investors in England, but also I think””and I don’t have the number offhand, but I think it’s around 45% of the company is owned by the African farmers themselves.
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Posted at July 15, 2008 09:02 AM
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