Action and Info
Case 1 - Coffee
What can you do to support coffee growers? Buy Fair Trade coffee. Besides giving farmers a fair wage for their work, you also support shade grown coffee, which is a sustainable way of growing the beans. Coffee grown under the shade of mixed trees requires few or no chemical inputs, and if the coffee trees are in the shade of other plants and trees, it means that the land was not cleared exclusively for coffee.
Request from coffee shops and grocery stores that they include lines of fair trade certified coffee.
To learn more about fair trade coffee, check out www.justuscoffee.com and www.levelground.com
For more coffee facts go to www.newint.org/issue271/facts.html
To see how Starbucks is addressing the issue, go to www.starbucks.com
To read an extensive report about the coffee trade, go to http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/coffee/coffee.htm
To learn more about trade, and efforts to make it fairer, go to www.maketradefair.com
Click here to sign a quick petition to encourage companies like Starbucks to sell more fair trade products.
Case 2 - IMF
Understanding how IMF policies affect the debts of developing nations isn't easy, but it's important. Here are some helpful sites:
|
