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For Haiti’s agriculture, the hits keep coming

Guest blogger Sarah Leavitt is the digital outreach manager of the Lambi Fund of Haiti.

Report from Cancun

Mark Ritchie summarizes what took place at the 2003 WTO Ministerial held in Cancun, Mexico and the successful impact of a week’s worth of fair trade events.

Global campaign seeks to end Starbucks use of GE ingredients, and promote use of fair trade coffee

Consumer, environmental, and social justice activists in 300 US cities and seven other nations (England, Scotland, Israel, Austria, Canada, Australia, & Japan) leafleted and stage protests in front of Starbucks coffee shops from February 23 to March 2. These protests were timed to coincide with Starbucks' annual meeting in Seattle on February 26.

Peace Coffee

The Fair-Trade Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy started HeadWaters International as a for-profit company in 1995 to promote sustainable production and fair-trade markets.

Marrakesh Proposals for Sustainable Trade

In 1994 IATP and IATP Board Member Steve Shrybman from the Canadian Environmental Law Association drafted the “Marrakesh Proposals for Sustainable Trade”. This was a set of formal definitions for an international agreement linking environmental policy with trade organizations.

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