“I have participated in other workshops where people have ‘explained to me’ a set of standards. This is the first time I am in a workshop to discuss the standards, and negotiate potential changes. One thing is that somebody from outside, from an office somewhere writes a standard. A very different thing is to improve [Read More]
Leonardo Garcia is a farm worker at a coffee estate called “La Revancha” (The Revenge, in English), in Nicaragua. This farm is part of our pilot program, which was developed to help the coffee industry better understand if and how Fair Trade can help improve the lives of millions of farm workers who work the coffee [Read More]
Farm Workers,Making the case,Voices
Eliover Garcia, a foreman at Hacienda Venecia in Colombia, has been working in the coffee fields since he was 8 years old. His humble origins make Eliover fully appreciate everything in life. “Working on the coffee fields has allowed me to put food on our table and satisfy my family’s basic need, for which I’m [Read More]
