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Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.

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Our prices are increasing on February 9th


We’re doing this at a time when Equal Exchange and our farmer partners are facing unprecedented challenges due to the pandemic and climate change. As always, our focus is to create impact for farmers, consumers, and alternative traders for the long term. We need a future where alternative values-based supply chains continue to exist, offering a vision of hope and tangible choices that keep building toward that vision.

Please let us know if there are ways we can help in this transition. We are as committed as ever to transforming the food system, and we are grateful for your partnership in this work.

Since the launch of our chocolate program in 2002, we have exclusively purchased cocoa beans from farmer co-operatives in Latin America, yet roughly 70% of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa, mainly the Ivory Coast and Ghana. One of our newest chocolate additions, Organic Total Eclipse, includes cocoa sourced from Togo. Ama Este (pictured above) is from the Ananekope village in Togo and a member of the SCOOPS IKPA Co-op. This community practices a style of cooperation called "solidarity" farming. In this type of community farming, members will help harvest on a neighboring farm one day, and then that farmer returns the favor to help another with their harvest. This way everyone has extra help when they need it.

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We invite you to join our growing community of citizen-consumers who are getting even more deeply involved in Equal Exchange.

We need consumer participation in our organization to build a deeply democratic trade system made up of farmers and their democratic organizations, workers and their democratic organization, and citizen-consumers who now have a democratic space in Equal Exchange as well as their own network. Join us in changing trade, together!

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