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The Roots of Fair Trade and SPP
My Experiences Alongside Small Producers
From: The Fair Trade Handbook
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In this chapter, the author shares some of his experiences in the fair trade movement, from the origins of what is now the Fairtrade label to the creation and consolidation of the Small Producers Symbol (spp).
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Jerónimo Pruijn
Jerónimo Pruijn has a master’s degree in anthropology. Originally from Holland, he has lived for over 30 years in Mexico. He began his work with fair trade in the late 1980s as a volunteer in the first fair trade label, Max Havelaar Netherlands. He has worked for organizations, networks and companies of organizations of small producers. He has served as executive director of the Café La Selva coffee chain, the Network Against Extreme Poverty, Fair Trade Mexico, and was the Mexican coordinator of Small Producers of Fair Trade and the Latin American and Caribbean coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Fair Trade Small Producers and Workers (CLAC), agromercados and serjusto. He represented CLAC in the Fairtrade International Standards Committee from 2007 to 2013. Since 2009 he has served as executive director of SPP Global, an intercontinental network of organizations of small organic producers.