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Remember why BuzzFlash began Fair Trade?

So that our readers can make a real difference for real people through deciding how to spend consumer dollars.

You can buy coffee that is sold through companies that take advantage of workers -- or you can buy certified Fair Trade coffee. That means that the coffee growers are justly compensated, communities are taught how to implement sustainable agriculture, and cooperatives are supplied with skills to expand their growth.

Cafe Paz (Peace) is ground in Costa Rica, allowing more funds to be used in the country of origin for purposes of improving the lives of the growers, their families and their communites.

COOCAFE (Consorcio de Cooperativas Cafeteleras de Guanacaste y Montes de Oro R.L.) was created to help a consortium of 6 cooperatives of small coffee farmers in northwestern Costa Rica market their coffee beans after a disastrous plunge in world coffee prices in 1989. Along with direct control over the processing of their coffee beans, the more than 2300 small coffee producers and their families benefit from COOCAFE's cooperative marketing strategies, advice on diversification of crops, and export expertise. Unlike other coffee you find in U.S. supermarkets, every step of the coffee production process is completed in the country of origin.

You have it in your power today to take a small action that can change lives.

Every time you buy Fair Trade products, you are helping to improve the world.

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