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Sweet!
How Fair Trade Powers the Sugar Revolution
From: The Fair Trade Handbook
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This chapter explores fair trade in the sugar industry; how sugar farmers are often deprived of market access; and how a Paraguayan co-operative is positively disrupting the status quo.
Contributors
Martin Van den Borre
Martin Van den Borre has spent 20 years working as a cooperative developer, serving on several boards and national work groups and promoting the social and solidarity economy in Cuba and the world. He proudly acts as ambassador for the SPP Global cooperative, which unites over 300,000 small organized farmers. He was a worker-owner of La Siembra Cooperative, the North American pioneer of fair trade cocoa and sugar. He currently works as a consultant with various social economy organizations and is building a small coffee roasting workshop on his farm in western Québec.
