Five employees from TransFair Canada recently attended the Fair Trade Futures conference in Boston, MA. It was inspiring for all of us to spend a weekend surrounded by almost 800 other people as passionate about Fair Trade as we are – meeting producers, networking with advocates and businesses, and participating in a wide variety of seminars and debates.
One of the most interesting sessions for me was a session titled Innovating the Fair Trade Model in the North and the South, which included information about emerging models of biodiversity and sustainability for farmers, agroecology programs in Brazil, and the production of Fair Trade bananas. However, it was Darryl Reed’s presentation about a state-operated poverty eradication mission in India that really grabbed my attention.
