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August 2010

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  • ●  Producers First and Foremost
    By Éric St-Pierre
  • ●  SAPRIET
  • ●  Frozen Chocolate Bananas
  • ●  Young Canmore Girl Wants to Change Soccer Balls in Schools
  • ●  Latest news

 

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August 2010

Editorial

Producers First and Foremost

By Éric St-Pierre

Eric St-PierreIn its New Global Strategy for Fairtrade, FLO states that within the next few years, producer networks may take their place as fundamental actors of the system instead of being just the recipients of fairtrade. This endeavour has always been at the heart of the movement. But do producers really occupy the place that is rightfully theirs in this system?


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Featured Producer

SAPRIET

Sandra Cadena Grupo Agrícola PrietoIn 1956, after completing his studies, the President of Cimexpriba, Aurelio Prieto Calderón, returned to his home province of El Oro (the Gold Province) to apply his newly acquired knowledge to the traditional farming practices used on his father’s farm. Slowly but surely, Señor Calderón began to use a small portion of the profits to improve the land to get, not only, greater productivity but also a higher quality of “green gold” bananas. Other companies and farmers in the region, in an effort to increase profitability, began introducing banana trees into El Oro from other countries and regions. Unfortunately, in some cases these new trees also brought with them diseases that soon spread to the domestic species...

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Featured Recipe

Frozen Chocolate Bananas

Frozen Chocolate BananasHonestly... frozen bananas, dipped in chocolate, covered in sprinkles, and served on a stick? So delicious, people will be willing to pay for the privilege of just getting a taste.

 

Makes 10 frozen chocolate banana pops and only takes 15mins (plus 45mins or so of cooling time).

 

Recipe submitted by Kat Reichel

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Young Canmore Girl Wants to Change Soccer Balls in Schools

Leanne Post may be 12 years old, but she realizes our actions locally have global implications.The Grade 7 student, in preparing a citizenship project for school, decided to look into the use of child labour for manufacturing soccer balls.The project brought to light information Post says shocked her and has also seen her challenge her school, Lawrence Grassi Middle School, to only use soccer balls that are certified Fair Trade.

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Barrie Goes Fair Trade

Fair Trade Movement Gaining Ground

Deep in Colombian Jungle, A First in Eco Gold

A Fair Deal For Producers And Consumers Alike

Unrest in Kyrgyzstan Rattles Country, Fairtrade Farmers

Fair Vodka a Toast to Fair Trade

Côte d'Ivoire: Black Pod Hits Cocoa Harvest in Southwest

Will the Fair Trade Concept Take Off in India?

Ste. Anne de Bellevue, a Certified Fair Trade Town

Green Your Wedding

Ste. Anne de Bellevue Becomes a Fair Trade town

Canmore Now a Fair Trade Community

Fairtrade Towns To Top 500

Fair Trade iPods

Will the World Cup Be Good for Fair Trade?

Food Prices to Rise by up to 40% Over Next Decade, UN Report Warns

Wales Celebrates its Second Year as a Fair Trade Nation

Consumers Guide to Green Labels in Canada

Vancouver-Made iPhone Apps Give Shoppers Insights Into Food Chain

 

 


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