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Local Fair Trade Label to Launch!

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:20:59 -0700

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The Local Fair Trade Network (LFTN) will celebrate the debut of the Local Fair Trade food label with four events events in Minneapolis and Winona, Minnesota, July 22-25. Produce from four local organic farms have been pilot certified to meet or exceed the standards of the Agricultural Justice Project (AJP).

It all starts from 3:00-6:00 PM, Sunday, July 22 when representatives of LFTN and AJP and Keewaydin Farms co-owner Rufus Hauke will be present at Seward Co-op to talk to customers about Local Fair Trade while co-op staff distribute free samples of food from participating farms. Seward Co-op is located at 2111 East Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis.

LFTN and the Agricultural Justice Project Partner in the Creation of a Domestic Fair Trade Label

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:41:43 -0800

In the Summer of 2006, the Local Fair Trade Network and the Agricultural Justice Project agreed to join forces in the creation of a Domestic Fair Trade label. Two co-ops and five farms in the Upper Midwest will serve as the subjects of a pilot project that will develop a certification process for the standards developed by AJP, as well as refine those standards. The goal of the pilot project is to have certified Fair Trade products from those farms in co-ops during the growing season of 2007. LFTN and AJP are seeking input on the standards, how the label should be marketed, as well as the governance of the Domestic Fair Trade system.