Community and Farmer Stories
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In 2007, we began a three-year public-private partnership program to work with cooperatives in Brazil to increase their capacity to provide high-quality Fair Trade Certified™ coffee and to convert more than 2,000 farmers to organic practices.
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Café Bom Dia is investing in the Centro Educacional Cooperar (CEC) in Poço Fundo, a new non-profit school aimed at bringing much needed quality, affordable education to a rural area in Brazil.
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Geraldo da Silva is a Brazilian small-holder coffee grower who has transformed his farming practices by converting to organic coffee production – increasing his income and gaining improved financial stability in the process.
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Conversion to organic farming practices as a part of his growers' cooperative has enabled Jose Augusto de Oliveira to invest in equipment, buildings and more coffee plants – helping to ensure he can face the future from the best possible position.
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The Organic Farmers Cooperative for the Nova Resende region decides democratically how to invest some of the profits it makes from its Organic Certified and Fair Trade Certified™ coffee for the benefit of the local community – education, health and investment in farming equipment are all areas that have been discussed.
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UNIPASV is a small farmers' cooperative in the Santana da Vargem region which has become a reference point for other local cooperatives in how Fair Trade coffee production can benefit the local farming community.
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