3/6/2020
Manduvira Cooperative in Paraguay is world-renowned for being the first sugar mill owned and run by an agricultural cooperative. One of the co-op…
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2/28/2020
This is Part One of a three-part blog series from the Equal Exchange Banana Team exploring the threat of TR4 banana production in Latin…
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2/25/2020
Buyers, importers, roasters and consumers of specialty coffee are having a big and important conversation right now about coffee prices. Regardless of our role in…
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1/24/2020
Many of us who eat meat buy it at the grocery store. We don’t know exactly where it comes from or how the…
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11/5/2019
What if spice farmers had a way to sell their freshest and most unusual varieties for what they’re really worth? What if chefs and…
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10/8/2019
African American farmers have surmounted all kinds of obstacles in order to keep their family land and make farming profitable. We talked to Shirley Sherrod…
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10/7/2019
“Bean to Bar” is a concept you may have seen on your favorite chocolate wrapper. But if you live in North America, like I do…
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5/21/2019
If you’re a U.S. consumer, 8 out of 10 times your avocado will come from Michoacán, Mexico. There are various reasons for…
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5/14/2019
Since 2011, Equal Exchange has carried organic olive oil from Palestinian farmers. West Bank families produce this special oil from olive trees that have been…
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5/13/2019
By Kim Coburn and Frankie Pondolph, Equal Exchange During the week of April 10th Equal Exchange coffee team hosted 10-20 coffee & cacao producers…
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4/22/2019
Get ready for the most exciting episode of The Stories Behind Our Food we’ve done yet. We talked to Joe Maxwell about consolidation…
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3/28/2019
Last December, members of Equal Exchange’s chocolate team met with our sugarcane co-op partners, Manduvira. Located in the Southern Hemisphere, Paraguay experiences its…
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3/19/2019
It’s time for The Stories Behind Our Food. We’ve just released a brand-new episode of our interview-style podcast, and…
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3/1/2019
In the lush and isolated highlands of southern Peru, a region known as Incahuasi, meaning “House of the Incas,” one young woman, Habilia Vigoria Oyola…
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2/26/2019
Hey, it’s another episode of The Stories Behind Our Food, live and ready for you to listen! Here it is! You can hear…
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