Fair World Marketplace was a fair trade store
(a Ten Thousand Villages partner store) located in Syracuse/DeWitt, New York. Over seven years, sales from this store provided more than $250,000 in income for artisan and farmer co-ops throughout the world. Declining sales following the 2008 recession forced the store's closure in 2011.

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Just Coffee documentary



Just Coffee documents the damage of collapsing coffee prices from 1998-2005 on coffee producers. It describes the different kind of social certifications placed on coffee products, including the Fair Trade label. It also surveys challenges for both producers and consumers in complying with and finding fair trade and other certified coffees.

Though coffee prices, along with other commodities, spiked in March, they have fallen again. Coffee prices have never returned to 1998 levels.

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