Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange is a fair trade worker-owned cooperative whose products are fairly traded and organic, including coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, and snacks from around the world.
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Equal Exchange is a fair trade worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange started in 1986 with a trade model that values the farmers, consumers, and the earth. Today, Equal Exchange continues to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. Their products are fairly traded and organic, including coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, and snacks from around the world.
Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers, and to demonstrate, through their success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
Their guiding principles are:
-Trade directly with democratically organized small farmer cooperatives.
-Facilitate access to credit for producer organizations.
-Pay producers a guaranteed minimum price that provides a stable source of income as well as improved social services.
-provide high quality food products.
-Support sustainable farming practices.
-Build a democratically-run cooperative workplace.
-Develop more environmentally-sound business practices.
Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers, and to demonstrate, through their success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
Their guiding principles are:
-Trade directly with democratically organized small farmer cooperatives.
-Facilitate access to credit for producer organizations.
-Pay producers a guaranteed minimum price that provides a stable source of income as well as improved social services.
-provide high quality food products.
-Support sustainable farming practices.
-Build a democratically-run cooperative workplace.
-Develop more environmentally-sound business practices.
