Fair Trade Travel

Travel, for Coop Coffees and its roaster members, is crucial to establishing and maintaining strong relationships with producer coops from all over the coffee-growing world.  Exchanging information face-to-face with our partners and experiencing first-hand their daily context is an indispensable aspect of what we do.  In addition to providing a wonderful opportunity for members and staff of Coop Coffees to visit with producers, many roasters have opened up delegations to the public and encourage their clients, friends, and family to join them abroad!  To learn more about these chance-of-a-lifetime tours that our roasters will be leading, scroll down or click:

• Just Coffee's Public Delegations

• Higher Grounds Fair Trade Tours

Just Coffee Fair Trade Travel Delegations

Because our cooperative mission is based on direct relationships with the producers that grow our coffee, Just Coffee organizes delegations to grower cooperatives in Latin America several times a year. These delegations give Just Coffee costumers, coffee drinkers, travelers, students, curious souls, or other interested folks a look into what goes on behind fair trade and the long process of coffee from the seedling to your cup. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss topics related to the larger importance of participating in the fair trade system as well as challenges that still exist in finding a fair alternative to world trade through face-to-face conversations with the farmers themselves. It also gives producers a chance to hear directly from consumers about the end results of the coffee they grow, bringing a human face to this whole system. Participants will learn about benefits as well as challenges that still exist within the fair trade system, women’s empowerment, organic agriculture, food security, globalization, cultural diversity, politics, history, current events, environmental issues, social movements, and more. Throughout our stay, we will travel to coffee growing communities, share meals with and visit producers in their homes, visit local markets, eat typical food, and explore the surrounding area.

Contact: Julia Baumgartner at julia (at) justcoffee (dot) coop

Fair Trade Tours with Higher Grounds Trading

**Visit their website for more info: http://highergroundstrading.com/fair-trade-tours/

Contact us at 231.922.9009 or email chris@highergroundstrading.com for more information