Fair Trade Coffee News

Fair trade coffee supporting women coffee growers

While more and more companies are now jumping on the marketing bandwagon and selling fair trade coffee, this is the first time I have seen a “niche” fair trade company seeking to support one group of growers in particular...women in Peru.

Take a look at the Cafe Femino Foundation web site and you’ll quickly get a sense of how appropriate and important this cause is.

How the fair trade coffee process works. An excellent explanation by Jason Cangialosi

If you ever get confused by the process of fair trade...who does what, where the money goes and how etc, read this article by Jason Cangialosi.

I found it to be one of the best pieces I have read for anyone who is interested in fair trade coffee, but is having trouble finding a clear explanation as to how it all works.

Organic Coffee Lifestyle

My apologies for the delay in posts over the last few days. It has been a busy week or two. One thing I have managed to get done is to put together a short page on the Coffee Detective site on the Organic Coffee Lifestyle.

It strikes me that coffee is one of the very few things we consume where we can make choices and do no harm from the moment the coffee is grown, to the moment we throw away the used grinds.