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Ryan Zinn is Fair World Project’s Political Director. He has been involved in the food justice movement at home and abroad for over twenty years, including work with such organizations as the Center for International Environmental Law, Friends of the Earth – Paraguay, Global Exchange and the Organic Consumer Association. He is also co-founder of Grow Ahead, a crowdfunding initiative that supports small-scale farmers in addressing the challenges of climate change in their communities.
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Stand with Working People. Support the PRO Act!

By Ryan Zinn

Fair trade was founded on the principle of solidarity: uniting farmers, workers, and activist consumers in a joint effort to […]

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03/23/202103/24/2021 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Blog, Fair Climate, Fair TradeLeave a Comment on Stand with Working People. Support the PRO Act!

Collaborating to Cool the Planet

By Ryan Zinn

How Farmer-to-Farmer Trainings Are Spreading New Solutions to Climate Change In the fall of 2017, Grow Ahead, a partner of […]

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04/19/201804/24/2020 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Fair Trade, Voices of Fair TradeLeave a Comment on Collaborating to Cool the Planet
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Fair Trade is the Pathway to Regenerative Agriculture

By Ryan Zinn

The climate is changing, and our industrial food and farming system plays a big role in that. Over the past […]

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09/12/201704/22/2019 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Fair Climate, Fair Food, Fair Trade, Issue 15, Voices of Fair Trade3 Comments on Fair Trade is the Pathway to Regenerative Agriculture
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Food Waste, Hunger and Climate Change

By Ryan Zinn

As a child, you likely heard some variation of the cliché, “Eat all your food; there are starving people in […]

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04/19/201704/26/2018 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Issue 14, Voices of Fair Trade1 Comment on Food Waste, Hunger and Climate Change

“Berta Did Not Die. She Multiplied.”

By Ryan Zinn

A Tribute to the Work of Berta Cáceres, Indigenous Rights Leader Berta Cáceres was murdered in her home on March […]

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09/15/201607/02/2018 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Issue 13, Voices of Fair Trade3 Comments on “Berta Did Not Die. She Multiplied.”
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Small-Scale Farmers Confront Climate Change

By Ryan Zinn

The industrial food system is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Industrial agriculture practices like Concentrated Animal […]

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04/07/201607/02/2018 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Fair Climate, Issue 12, Voices of Fair TradeLeave a Comment on Small-Scale Farmers Confront Climate Change
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El Salvador Farmers Successfully Defy Monsanto

By Ryan Zinn

The perils of ingesting food that has any contact with a Monsanto-produced product are in the news on nearly a […]

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03/24/201511/07/2017 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Blog, News2 Comments on El Salvador Farmers Successfully Defy Monsanto

Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

By Ryan Zinn

“Agroecology is political; it requires us to challenge and transform structures of power in society. We need to put the […]

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03/23/201503/23/2015 by Ryan Zinn Posted in BlogLeave a Comment on Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology

International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) Concludes; 2015 is the International Year of Soils

By Ryan Zinn

2014 marked the United Nation’s International Year of Family Farming. Numerous activities and actions were carried out, promoting the critical […]

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01/12/201510/24/2017 by Ryan Zinn Posted in Blog1 Comment on International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) Concludes; 2015 is the International Year of Soils

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