Nicaragua Fair Trade

A list of links relating to Fair Trade in Nicaragua - in time we hope to have a comprehsive page detailling serveral key projects.

Global Exchange – building people to people ties  - supporting fair trade coffee projects

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/nicaragua/NicaraguaFairTrade.html

Esperanza en Acción, ("Hope through Action"), is a Fair Trade organization based in Nicaragua that provides Nicaraguan artisans with the tools to lift themselves out of poverty by offering technical assistance and quality consultation in addition to education and practice in calculating a fair wage.

www.esperanzaenaccion.com

Folk guitar songs played by Nicaraguan farmers recorded live on location

http://cdbaby.com/cd/nftf

trade for a change (coffee) USA based fundraising program

http://www.highergroundstrading.com/nicaragua.html

Café Campesino strive to live our lives and run our Fair Trade coffee business according to the Golden Rule. As individuals - and collectively as a company - we are committed to treating people and our environment as we wish to be treated… with respect, fairness, courtesy, honesty, acceptance, tolerance, and humility.

http://www.cafecampesino.com/Nicaragua_Green_Coffee_Beans_p/b721-2.htm

Nicaragua Social Development Project - Executive Summary
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/REN-218132240-PLU

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign

http://www.nicaraguasc.org.uk/partners/index.htm

Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative in Nicaragua

The Organization of Northern Coffee Cooperatives, or CECOCAFEN, is a second level cooperative made up of 11 grass roots cooperatives, which represent 1,900 small scale coffee farmers in the north of Nicaragua.

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/cecocafen

UCA Soppexcca - Union de Cooperativas Agropeguarias / Jinotega – Nicaragua - an organization into which all the generations of the family are integrated

http://www.soppexcca.org/en/

Fairtrade Foundation
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk
Traidcraft
http://www.traidcraft.org.uk
Twin Trading
http://www.twin.org.uk