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November Christmas Bazaars!

Mankato Fair Trade will be sponsoring the annual Christmas church Fair Trade Bazaars throughout the month of November and into December. You have the opportunity to support our producers in developing countries by buying beautiful, unique, hand-crafted Fair Trade clothing, Christmas items, and home decor from 10,000 Villages, New Ulm's Own, and Global Mamas. Here are the days, times, and locations of the Fair Trade Bazaars! Grace Lutheran church, 110 North 4th Street, Mankato, Sunday, November 12, 9:30 – 11:30 and Wednesday, November 15, 5:00 – 7:00 Bethlehem Lutheran church, 720 South 2nd Street, Mankato, Sunday, November 26, 9:00 – Read More

2023-11-09T03:36:14+00:00November 9, 2023|Uncategorized|

October is Fair Trade Month

October marks National Fair Trade Month in the United States: a month dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of fair trade, and the promotion of buying and using socially and commercially responsible products. If you’re reading this , you’ve probably already heard of fair trade. Yet, despite the term’s ubiquity, its full meaning still eludes most of us, with the numerous fair trade entities — from certification bodies to national organizations and international networks — adding to the confusion. Fair trade came about when it became clear that globalization and free trade facilitated the Global North’s exploitation of producers Read More

2023-09-22T01:21:33+00:00September 22, 2023|Uncategorized|

How You Can Support Fair Trade

Find & support an FTF verified store or café in your local community; Educate about fair trade with quotes, graphics, blogs, and more; Spread the word about the Fair Trade Month Silent Auction; Purchase from FTF members when shopping online;

2023-09-22T01:13:20+00:00September 22, 2023|Uncategorized|

April is Earth Month

Earth Month takes place in April every year. This annual awareness month is an opportunity to raise awareness and advocate for change around the issues most impacting our planet! Throughout Earth Month, environmental leaders and activists all around the world present plans, strategies, and solutions for mitigating and preventing further damage to the planet and its resources. Earth Month, which surrounds the all-important Earth Day on April 22, feels (and arguably is) especially important this year, as our window to make the urgent changes we need to address the climate crisis — from adapting to the damage we can Read More

2023-04-03T03:38:29+00:00April 3, 2023|Fair Trade, MAFTTI, Sustainable Development, Uncategorized|

Remembering Emily Kracht, Loyola, and Mankato Fair Trade

by Paul Renshaw Founding Chair, Mankato Fair Trade . 35 years ago, if you were a coffee farmer anywhere in the Americas, East Africa or South-East Asia, you would have been very worried by the world price of the commodity that your livelihood depended on. You would probably not have been able to make ends meet. This “coffee crisis” of the late 1980s spurred the growth of the international “Fair Trade” or “Fairtrade” movement. Among other benefits, participating farmers and other small producers in the Global South, were enabled, through innovative product labeling, to receive fairer prices and thus reward Read More

2023-03-18T17:47:54+00:00March 18, 2023|Uncategorized|

Fair Talks from Los Angeles Fair Trade

Fair Trade Podcasts For the season two premier of Fair Trade LA's FAIR Talks podcast, Elisha Chan (Executive Director of Fair Trade LA) chats with Joe Altepeter and Alexandria Pineda from the Downtown Women’s Center, the only organization in Los Angeles exclusively serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness. Learn more about this incredible organization from its audacious inception to their vision to see every woman housed and on a path to personal stability. The conversation highlights the ways COVID, race, class, and gender disproportionately affect BIPOC women’s opportunities for safe housing, and how housing is a prescription for health. Read More

2022-10-01T00:17:53+00:00October 1, 2022|Fair Trade, Fair Trade Towns, Uncategorized|

Fair Trade in Waconia, MN

Divas Fair Trade, owned by Guisela Pinto and Juan Llerena is an online and pop-up fair trade business based out of Waconia, MN. The Peruvian couple came to Minnesota about 20 years ago with dreams of making a home here, a family and careers, For doing so, they also have been helping build the dreams of others through their fair-trade business. Connections to their home country of Peru enabled the local couple to share the beauty from that part of the world and make connections to local artisans and farmers. Having the opportunity to travel and visit many places, Read More

2022-07-09T21:13:56+00:00July 9, 2022|Uncategorized|
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