Fair Trade Links

Canadian Student Fair Trade Network
http://www.csftn-recce.org/english/index.html
CSFTN is a Canadian umbrella organization that facilitates communication and collaboration among Fair Traders across the country and beyond.

Catholic Relief Services
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/index.cfm
Catholic Relief Services is the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. CRS is also committed to educating the people of the United States to fulfill their moral responsibilities toward our global brothers and sisters by helping the poor, working to remove the causes of poverty, and promoting social justice.

Co-op America
www.coopamerica.org
Co-op America is a nonprofit consumer education organization for environmentally wise purchasing and investing, located in Washington, DC, with over 52,000 members throughout the country.

EcoLogic Finance
www.ecologicfinance.org
EcoLogic Finance is a nonprofit offering affordable financial services to community-based businesses operating in environmentally sensitive areas of Latin America and Africa. Targeting the rural credit market, EcoLogic Finance provides loan capital to support low-income communities whose business activities foster environmental conservation and grassroots economic development.


Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO)
www.fairtrade.net
FLO is an umbrella organization comprised of 19 independent Fair Trade labeling and certification bodies called National Initiatives. FLO sets the international Fair Trade standards and guarantees that products sold anywhere in the world with a Fair Trade label conform to those standards.


Fair Trade Federation
www.fairtradefederation.org
The Fair Trade Federation is an association of Fair Trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers in the U.S. FTF links low-income producers with consumer markets and educates consumers about the importance of purchasing fairly traded products.


Fair Trade Resource Network
www.fairtraderesource.org
The Fair Trade Resource Network's goal is to raise consumer awareness about improving people's lives through Fair Trade alternatives by:
1. Gathering and compiling research and data about Fair Trade
2. Providing information about Fair Trade to the public, the media and Fair Trade advocates
3. Galvanizing Fair Trade organizations and individuals seeking to get involved.
FTRN's website has an extensive list of Fair Trade materials including the newest edition of The Conscious Consumer (to order visit http://www.fairtraderesource.org/cc/cc.html).

Global Exchange
www.globalexchange.org
Global Exchange, headquartered in San Francisco, is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.


International Fair Trade Association
www.ifat.org
The International Fair Trade Association (IFAT) is a federation of producers and alternative trading organizations (ATOs) seeking to improve the livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting Fair Trade Organizations, and speaking out for greater justice in world trade. IFAT sponsors World Fair Trade Day annually.

Lutheran World Relief
www.lwr.org/fairtrade/index.asp
Lutheran World Relief is the humanitarian relief and development arm of the Lutheran Church in America. LWR envisions a world in which each person and every generation lives in justice, dignity, and peace, and works with partners in 35 countries to help people grow food, improve health, strengthen communities, end conflict, build livelihoods and recover from disasters. With people in the U.S., LWR works for justice for those they serve.


Organic Consumers Association
www.organicconsumers.org
The OCA promotes food safety, organic farming, and sustainable agricultural practices in the U.S. and internationally.

Oxfam America
www.oxfamamerica.org
Oxfam America is dedicated to creating lasting solutions to hunger, poverty, and social injustice through long-term partnerships with impoverished communities around the world. Oxfam's web site contains information on the Fair Trade Coffee Campaign, including profiles on coffee-growing cooperatives and information for activists.


United Students for Fair Trade (USFT)
www.usft.org/
A national student-led umbrella organization working to promote awareness and increase demand for Fair Trade on university campuses.




 

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