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IMO comes to North America

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

The Institute of Marketecology (IMO ) is set to expand on the fair trade promotion and certification work of Transfair Canada and Transfair USA. The IMO's Fair for Life standard presents a more flexible and complete fair trade certification option because it certifies more products and certifies the product processing as well as the farming of raw ingredients.imologo.jpg

“Fair trade is behaving similarly to the early movement in organics, and is predicted to grow similarly, as there is no sign of slowing to this consumer demand,” says Kerry Hughes, M.Sc., US IMO Representative, also Founder of EthnoPharm , a natural products consulting company with over a decade of experience. IMO has a strong presence throughout the world, with offices and representatives in about 30 countries, and certification practices in over 90 countries. With a new representative in the US, IMO certification will be more attainable to US companies.

 IMO is best known in Canada for certifying organic products. For example, some of Cocoa Camino's fair trade organic sugar is certified organic by the IMO. 

Will the IMO catch on in N. America? That probably depends on consumers more than traditional N. American businesses. Will consumers demand food and other products that are fair trade all the way through the production process?

 

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Farm worker unions: Fairer 2008

Wednesday, 02 January 2008

Fair trade discussion often focus on improving labour conditions of workers in developing or less developed countries, but what about workers in the fruit and vegetable industry in North America?

United Farm Workers (UFW) works to improve work conditions and just wages. The delicious fruits and vegetables enjoyed year round in N.sisepuedeufw.jpg America are a produced through exploitation of poor, non-status migrants (illegal aliens to Lou Dobbs fans).

Exploitation means: Planting, weeding, trimming, and picking; slipping, dehydrating, sickening, injuring, hiding, earning, denying wages

After the break : lots of UFW plans and projects...whereto Canada?

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Fair Trade Game - Marquis Project

Friday, 07 December 2007

Learn all about how fair trade works and how everyone can help contribute to making a fairer production and trade system. The Marquis Project prepared these board games for use in high school class rooms in Manitoba, Canada. Why not bring these lessons to your class, family, community or wild board game party?



The Fair Game™
is available to you for $95 CDN (before taxes).
FREE shipping within Canada!!!
Please email us for more info.

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