How have poorly educated coffee farmers who have grown up literally fighting for their very survival in a savagely war-torn African nation go on to win one of the coffee
What is the weakest link in a value chain? Is it the logistics component perhaps, responsible for moving raw goods to production facilities, to wholesalers, retailers and ultimately to the end
If you’ve become a FairChain revolutionary just because of the awesome Moyee Coffee, then you’ve missed the point. Or if you’ve become a revolutionary by going deeper into Moyee’s radically
Victoria is Canada’s coffee Mecca. Jim Townley comes from this coffee-riddled nook of the world, and his is a life that was once changed by visiting coffee at its source
As would be expected in his highly acclaimed coffee book ‘Uncommon Grounds’, Mark Pendergrast tells a story about coffee. Well at least, it mostly comes across as a story, when in
The Fair Trade movement has demonstrated enormous effectiveness in providing an alternative market for a wide range of locally finished products. Enabling producers right back at the start of the
Down here at the FairChain Headquarters, we’ve decided to really make the point clear that this revolution is not just about our own FairChain model. Instead, we’ve tried over
Use competitive advantage to help developing countries to escape poverty. Now THAT is one sentence you don’t hear every day. Check out what it means in this short clip… Image courtesy
Free trade versus fair trade – the battle wages on… Pitted against each other from the very beginning, these two irreconcilable trading models represent polar opposites in the capitalism-socialism spectrum.
By definition, fair trade is an alternative form of doing business that protects smallscale producers from the oftentimes harsh and unpredictable swings of the open market by guaranteeing them a
Read more here about how one particular coffee company is creating shared value in Ethiopia. Moyee Coffee | That’s just how we roll!
If there’s one organisation that gets our full respect for their efforts in adding value to products locally, it’s these guys. They go by the name of Value Added in
