This week's Peace Indicator was provided by my friend Elizabeth.
Elizabeth estimates there are 840,000 producers of fair trade goods in the world. She took some time to review the farmers listed by several of the major fair trade organizations, and totaled up their suppliers. This is probably a bit low, because even for all the work she did, she didn't catch every product out there.
Many Americans think of Fair Trade products as limited to coffee, tea, and chocolate, but there are many more products available. Elizabeth's list includes cotton, bananas, fruit, beauty products, rice, sugar, flowers, wine and more. AFSC is also involved in the fair trade movement. Our Atlanta office provides Fair Trade Olive Oil that supports Palestinian Olive farmers, and each fall our Austin office hosts a conference on women in fair trade.
To learn more about fair trade check out some of the organizations that are focused on those efforts: TransFair USA, Equal Exchange, London Fairtrade Campaign. There are lots of others as well.
If you have a Peace Indicator you'd like to share or have researched, leave us a comment.
Aaron
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