Fair Trade As We Do It: the Story of Jumbo Nuts
Fair Trade Alliance Kerala, the small-farmer collective I work for, is recapturing the homestead farming traditions of Kerala. Our goal is to grow to about 10,000 farming families stewarding about 40,000 acres of farmland, creating conditions that are akin to a tropical rainforest in crop diversity and biodiversity.
Global Food Crops Also Face Earth’s Sixth Great Mass Extinction
Human civilization depends on our food supplies, but the planet’s sixth mass extinction of plants and animals currently underway also threatens our food crops.