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Local Farms Want Fair Trade Certification, Too
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ecochic
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full of life
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10/08/2007 20:46:27
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I found this at Treehugger A group of farmers is calling out for what it has dubbed "agricultural justice." And to bring the international fair-trade movement—the same one that lobbies for worker equity and sustainability across the globe—home to the Midwest.
“Coffee was the originator of the fair trade movement,” Liz Haywood, general manager of Bluff Country Co-op in Winona, Minn., tells the Winona Daily News. “Domestic fair trade is the new frontier.” Get the full story here 
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