This document provides an introduction to fair trade and outlines the benefits it provides for small farmers. Fair trade aims to create a more equitable trading system through cooperatives, pre-harvest credit, long-term buying relationships, and paying above market minimum prices. It discusses the founders of fair trade and Equal Exchange, the first US fair trade coffee company. Equal Exchange uses a cooperative business model and in 2008 paid $1 million above market price and $2 million in pre-shipment financing to coffee cooperatives.

1. Introduction to Fair trade

3. Small farmers

4. Volatile coffee market

5. NO Direct Market Access

6. NO Access to Affordable Credit

7. What’s the
Alternative
to this
exploitative system

8. Yes,
Fair Trade!

10. Founders:- Rink Dickinson
Jonathan Rosenthal
Michael Rozyne

12. Co-operatives

13. Pre harvest Credit

14. Direct & long Term buying relations

15. Environmental sustainability

16. Fair trade Principals
• Pay a guaranteed minimum
Price
• Work only with Democratically
run small farmers co-operatives
• Provide Pre shipment Financing
• Develop long term buying
relationships
• Encourage economically
sustainable farming practices

17. Benefits of fair trade
• In 2008, Equal exchange paid over
$1 million above market price to
coffee co-operatives
• In 2008, equal exchange paid $
644945 in fair trade premiums
(coffee only)
• In 2008, Equal exchange fulfilled
co-operative requests for pre
shipment financing, totalling $ 2
million.
• In 2008, equal exchange
purchased 6.8 million pounds of
coffee from small farming co-
operatives.

18. Equal exchange
• First fair trade coffee
company in US., est. 1986
• Co-operative business model
for profit, worker owned,
mission driven and 100% fair
trade.
• Unique interfaith program
• Quality products and great
customer service

19. Mission of Equal Exchange
• Equal exchange mission is to build long term
partnership that are economically just and
environmentally sound to foster mutually benefit
relations between farmers and consumers and to
demonstrate, through our success the viability of
worker co-operative and fair trade.

21. Interfaith Programs
• Partnerships with faith based relief, development and human rights
organizations to help communities of faith to learn about and
promote fair trade.
• For each purchase made through our partnerships, a portion goes
into a small farmer fund that our partner organizations use in their
relief and development work.
• In 2008, Interfaith program participants purchased more than 1
million pounds of products.
• In 2008, there were more than 17900 participants.

22. UCC coffee project
• Partnership with justice and
witness ministries began in
2002.
• Join over 900 congregations
• For every pound of product
purchased, equal exchange
donates 15 cents to the
small farmer fund.
• In 2008, this totalled $
11,431.

23. Fairly traded coffee, tea, chocolates, nuts &
berries.

24. Get involved
• Serve
• Sell
• Raise funds
• Educate
• Travel