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Issue 14

fOR A BETTER WORLD: ISSUE 14FAIR TRADE FOR FARMERS AND SOIL

Issue 14, Spring/Summer 2017
This issue focuses on fairness in our food system with inspiring stories from the front lines. Look for a feature on how small-scale farmers and fair trade brands are partnering to grow regenerative solutions to climate change. We also share perspectives from Sakuma Brothers Farms where an indigenous-led independent union showed what can be accomplished through organizing, dialogue, and solidarity.There’s also the mix of policy and practical that readers have come to expect: Stories on some of the biggest issues facing our food system these days from food waste to crop prices, as well as concrete steps to make big institutional purchases count for small-scale farmers—and more!

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Alaffia Grass Harvesters

Fair Trade for Farmers and Soil

By Contributing Writer

This World Fair Trade Day, Celebrate with Us to Honor Small-Scale Regenerative Farmers This World Fair Trade Day (May 13, […]

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The Hidden History Made at Sakuma Brothers Farms

By David Bacon

History was made on September 12, 2016 with the election of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) to represent hand […]

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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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Fair Cannabis?

By Contributing Writer

Written by Elizabeth A. Bennett The Need for Labor Protection in America’s Fastest-Growing Agricultural Sector “We trimmed [cannabis] for three […]

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Sustainable Public Procurement:

By Contributing Writer

Written by Sean McHugh An Understated and Effective Way to Grow Fair Trade In recent years, sales of fair trade […]

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Trading Down: How Unfair Trade Hurts Farmers

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Written by Ben Lilliston United States farm incomes, following sinking crop prices, sharply declined in 2016 for the third year […]

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Grow Ahead: Crowdfunding Climate Resilience

By Contributing Writer

Industrial agriculture and food production is a major contributor to climate change, and the small-scale farmers whose regenerative practices our […]

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For a Better World issue 14

Issue 14 Spring/Summer 2017

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In this issue, we see that unions are alive and well. Because workers organized and consumers stood in solidarity, farm […]

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