News — Fair trade

November 29,2016 It took me 22 minutes today to get a "pour over" cup of Fair Trade coffee at my local Starbucks in Richmond. The coffee was Italian Dark Roast, which is basically burned coffee beans. There is more. When you enter a Starbucks you may spend significant time finding the one or two Fair Trade certified coffees. On sight research by the author in 28 Starbucks in Thailand, British Columbia, Switzerland, Spain and the United States revealed the difficulty of obtaining a cup of Fair Trade coffee to drink on the premises. The responses to beverage requests included the...

Do you know what is happening in Uganda? I like my source: the Red Pepper News and it's found online. Today the Presidents of Uganda and Turkey met in Kampala, Uganda's capital. President Yoweri Museveni has called on Turkey to support Ugandan scientists. President Yoweri Museveni has called on Turkey to support Ugandan scientists. Look for updates  between these two countries. 

Editor's Note: Conscious Magazine has teamed up with Amanda Judge from Faire Collection to learn how her journey in fair trade fashion has helped eradicate poverty. Find out more about Amanda Judge in this interview here. I found this article so exciting; so I shall share. Why write your own words when Amanda says the poverty story so well. "Welcome to the first in a series of articles that will demystify fair trade fashion. In doing so I’ll share some specific examples of how fair trade has lifted people out of poverty, but also break down the challenges the industry faces and regale you with some tales I’ve racked up in my 6 years...

On the 7th of March, the International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated worldwide. Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) Foundation has been working for more than twenty years, empowering refugee and displaced women and children from Burma as well as disadvantaged Hill-tribe women in Northern Thai villages.Through education, economic opportunities and other support, more women were encouraged and have taken leadership roles, benefitting their families and communities. Each year, WEAVE, in collaboration with its partners in the refugee camps and Thai villages across the Thai-Burma border, conducts awareness campaign activities during the celebration of IWD. Last year, WEAVE has...

Fair Trade breaks poverty  1 October 2015 (Culemborg) – Fair Trade breaks the chain of poverty. Fair traders around the world, together with small producers and backed by consumers, are breaking the chains of poverty.  Fair Trade is growing and that is our proof that we are gaining our fight against extreme poverty. The WFTO membership count doubled from 155 Fair Trade organisations in 2005 to 355 in 2014. In the same period, the turnovers of these members quadrupled from 136 million euros to 448 million euros.    To ensure their way out of poverty, producer-beneficiaries of WFTO members receive fair...