Agriculture

Why Small Farmers? Quite simply, small-scale farmers provide us with high quality, healthy food. They also take care

How Can I Learn More? Visit the Equal Exchange website at www.equalexchange.coop to learn more about the company’s

Fair Trade is based on the belief that small farmers should not be exploited; that they should receive a price for their crops that doesn’t condemn them to poverty.

Our modern food system is especially-fossil fuel dependent. On a typical, conventional, industrial farm, the

(as told by Frederick Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

According to current estimates on world population growth, agricultural productivity will have to increase by 56

One of the things I’m most excited about lately is meeting young people getting involved with farmingwith community

Ever since seven dairy farmers from Wisconsin founded Organic Valley in 1988, supporting small-scale operations and

Photo: james carrie Sweet onion names indicate the growing region: Vidalia (Georgia), Walla Walla (Washington), Texas