{"id":1955,"date":"2009-08-19T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T00:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:00:22","slug":"equal-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Equal Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>fairly trades coffee, tea, chocolate and snacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/1956\">Small Farmers Big Change &#8211; a campaign of Equal Exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Equal Exchange has created Big Change since 1986. Our founders envisioned a food system that empowers farmers and consumers, supports small farmer co-ops, and uses sustainable farming methods. They started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn&rsquo;t look back. Today, we continue to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. We partner with co-operatives of farmers who provide high-quality organic coffees, teas, chocolates and snacks from farmers all over the world, including here in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>We invite you to join us. Together we can create stronger local communities, a more just food system and a healthier planet. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/index.php \">Homepage<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/site-map\/\">Sitemap<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/wholesale\">Wholesale<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/story\">Story<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/product-info\">Products<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/farmer-partners\">Farmer Partners<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/interfaith-program\">Program<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/resources\">Resources<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/get-involved\">Get involved<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/fundraiser\">Fundraising<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/e-cast-sign-up\">Newsletter<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/links\/\">Links<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/faqs\/\">FAQs<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/contact-us\">Contacts<\/a> (and many Addresses).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/our-co-op\">Our Co-op<\/a>: Equal Exchange has created Big Change for over 20 years. It all started with an idea: what if food could be traded in a way that is honest and fair, a way that empowers both farmers and consumers? What if trade supported family farms that use organic methods, rather than industrialized agribusinesses that rely on harmful chemicals?\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our founders \u2013 Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal and Michael Rozyne \u2013 asked these questions as they envisioned a trade model that values the farmers, consumers and the earth. So they took a big risk and plunged full-force into changing a broken food system. In 1986, they started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn\u2019t look back. Read more about our story.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Equal Exchange continues to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. Our products now include fairly traded and organic coffee, tea, chocolate and snacks from farmers all over the world, including here in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Our worker-owned co-op is based in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Because Equal Exchange was founded with democratic principles in mind, we strongly believe in a one-person, one-vote workplace without a corporate hierarchy. We partner with co-operatives of small-scale farmers who make their own decisions on business and community matters.<\/p>\n<p>From the farmers\u2019 co-ops to our co-op, we\u2019re providing the best-tasting foods &#8211; while also making Big Changes to the way food ends up on your table. We\u2019ll keep the ideas coming.<\/p>\n<p>Our Mission:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Equal Exchange&rsquo;s mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our Guiding Principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trade directly with democratically organized small farmer cooperatives.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate access to credit for producer organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Pay producers a guaranteed minimum price that provides a stable source of income as well as improved social services.<\/li>\n<li>Provide high quality food products.<\/li>\n<li>Support sustainable farming practices.<\/li>\n<li>Build a democratically-run cooperative workplace.<\/li>\n<li>Develop more environmentally-sound business practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our Vision: &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalexchange.coop\/our-co-op\">full long text<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fairly trades coffee, tea, chocolate and snacks Linked with Small Farmers Big Change &#8211; a campaign of Equal Exchange. Equal Exchange has created Big Change since 1986. Our founders envisioned a food system that empowers farmers and consumers, supports small farmer co-ops, and uses sustainable farming methods. They started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1955\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Equal Exchange&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16010,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/16010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}