Fair Trade : Video

This is an 8 minute video about Equal Exchange, produced
by the Zana Network as part of their "Bright Green" series on progressive small businesses.

Actor Michael Douglas introduces the Series "A Dollar A Day." This series looks at global poverty from a unique perspective - the perspective of people living in poverty.

This short film documents Sir Steve Redgrave's trip to Mali to meet cotton farmers that are members of a Fairtrade co-operative.

Green Mountain Coffee has made a big business out of changing the damage that coffee companies can do to the environment.

Ghana produces fourteen percent of the world's cocoa, yet its farmers receive a small percentage of the revenue made by Western countries when they sell chocolate bars. In a bid to boost their income and cut out the middle man, farmers in Ghana have begun to sell their cocoa in local Co-ops to make sure it's traded fairly.

La Candelilla Tarrazú, a Costa Rican family cooperative, started one of Costa Rica’s first “micro mills” to help control the quality of its beans. They were successful and ultimately secured a Starbucks contract. Not only has the Sanchez family’s lifestyle improved, they are now able to invest in their children’s future and offer them a college education.

Colombia’s fertile southern state of Nariño has been oppressed by armed conflict and drug trafficking for more than 20 years. Buoyed by the government’s recent security efforts, development projects jointly funded by Starbucks and a local exporter are helping to raise incomes, improve the livelihood of coffee farmers, and bring stability back to the region. In the past few years a series of programs designed to improve the quality of life for the area's 30, 000 coffee growers is changing the balance in the struggle to stabilize the region and decrease illegal drug production.

Tadesse Meskela on a mission to save his 75,000 struggling Ethiopian coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse’s journey to London and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading system begin to unfold.

30 second Oxfam Fair Trade Ad