5. They live with Poverty, Illiteracy, and a long legacy of economic colonialism.
6. The Consumer Activists have been putting pressure on big coffee retailers to buy directly from cooperative farmers and pay them a price that represents a living wage.
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9. Coffee is the largest single product in the Fair Trade Movement.
10. Equal Exchange is now the largest Fair Trade coffee importer in the US, purchasing 1.76 million pounds of green beans in 2001.
13. Impacts of fair trade Fair Trade Sustainability and Survival. Fair Trade on Producers and their Organizations. Poverty Alleviation and Fair Trade . Assessing the Potential of Fair Trade for Poverty Reduction and Conflict Prevention
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15. The activists and consumers in the movement hope to provide security and healthy standards for employed consumers
16. The state should protect against profiteers, disease, unemployment, and market fluctuations.
17. The ideal goal is to push consumers to question the morality of a purchased product's origins.
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19. Fair Trade offers a mechanism for small farmers to receive higher prices as an alternative to the "tyranny of the C market“.
20. The most important requirement is a minimum price of $1.26 per pound, paid directly to organized farmer cooperatives-not to middlemen.
21. Fair Trade importers also must provide farmers with credit at fair terms and commit to long-term trade relationships.
