Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 Spotlight: Kasinthula Cane Growers’ Association
With Fairtrade Fortnight coming to a close, we are going to change things up a little.
So far in this series of posts, we have featured the coffee cooperatives that we work with. But today, we are going to take a look at one of the Fairtrade certified groups that we use to source our Fairtrade certified sugar from.
The group in question is the Kasinthula Cane Growers’ Association, one of the biggest and most successful farming groups in Malawi.
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 Spotlight: Asprotimana
With Fairtrade Fortnight into its second week, we are continuing with our Spotlight series. Today, we are looking at the Asprotimana cooperative.
This brilliant association of farmers has overcome a lot since their foundation in 2001, including battling the drugs trade, a fluctuating economy, but have emerged the other side a stronger organisation.
Based in the Huila region of Colombia, Asprotimana provides the beans that go into our best-selling Fairtrade Colombian Filter Coffee sachets.
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 Spotlight: PPKGO
The second post of our Fairtrade Fortnight Spotlight series is on the brilliant Gayo Organic Coffee Farming Association, better known to you and me as the PPKGO Cooperative.
This small group, based in Aceh, Indonesia, has done some amazing work over the years and supply the beans used in our Fairtrade and Organic certified single-origin Java.
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 Spotlight: Coocafe
During Fairtrade Fortnight, we will be shining a light on the Fairtrade-certified producers that we work with in order to create our award-winning range of espresso blends, hot chocolates and other coffee shop essentials.
Today, we are looking at Coocafe, one of the most influential and successful cooperatives in the coffee-mad state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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