Children of the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative hold up a Fair Trade chocolate bar
Today is the best day of the year for those of us with an unquenchable sweet tooth: Halloween! If you’re too old to go trick-or-treating yourself this year, stay home and hand out Fair Trade Certified Chocolate to trick-or-treaters and explain the significance [...]
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Every Glass Matters! Well, according to Organic Wine Trade Company, that is. The wines available through the Organic Wine Trade Company website are either Fair Trade Certified, made from organically grown grapes, produced from biodynamic vineyards or follow sustainable farming. As they say on their website, “With every glass of our [...]
When you buy Fair Trade Certified products, you help families like this one, member of the CECOVASA co-opin Peru, hold on to their land.
You already know that buying Fair Trade is good for farmers and good for the earth, but here’s yet another reason to feel good about your Fair Trade purchases: by making [...]
A cocoa farmer from the Conacado Cooperative in the Dominican Republic
It’s almost Halloween! Think about dressing up as a Fair Trade Certified product (ie. a banana, coffee bean or rose) this year. Go shopping for Fair Trade Certified chocolate to hand out to Trick-or-Treaters–you’re sure to be the most popular house on the [...]
Divine Chocolate began when a recently formed cocoa cooperative in Ghana, Kuapa Kokoo, decided to form a chocolate company so that they could sell their Fair Trade Certified chocolate around the world, giving even more back to the coop’s farmers. With investment assistance from The Body Shop and Twin Trading, and support from Comic [...]
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