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Equal Exchange Olive Oil and Medjool Dates from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) come from small farmers in the West Bank. PARC shares an update on what the situation has been like for farmers in the West Bank after October 7th, in 2024 and so far in 2025.
Well, if you were Beth Ann Caspersen, our Coffee Quality Manager, back in 1998, that was a good question. There were no courses or certificate programs for such a thing as specialty coffee. Today, there are more options. But for small-scale coffee farmers and their co-op staff, access to those formal training options can be very limited, making it just as challenging, in a different way, as when Beth Ann was starting out. She has worked for decades to make this knowledge more accessible for remote farmers.
When considering the assets of an organization, one doesn’t always think about the roof of a building. But when we considered adding solar panels to our headquarters, our large, flat roof was a big plus! Equal Exchange Sales Director and Vice President Lynsey Miller shares more.
In November 2024, our staff traveled to Colombia with members of our Citizen-Consumer community to visit our farmer partners there. Here are reflections from two members, Terry Steele and Susan Redlich, shared directly upon their return home.
Following up on her article, Pathways to Creating a Just Food System, Dana Geffner explores the barriers and opportunities to creating a just food system through this four-part series of articles, from outlining regenerative business structures to showing examples of alternative business models and alternatives to conventional shopping. In this fourth and final part of the series, she focuses on what individuals can each do to participate in transforming our food system.
We took a group of food co-op partners, wholesale accounts, and consumers to visit the farmers of ASPROCAFE Ingruma, a co-op that’s bucking the norm in Colombia to grow coffee organically. These are their takeaways, in their own words.