Example: Cooperative Coffees

Cooperative Coffees, a green coffee importing cooperative of 23 roasters in the USA and Canada, builds sustainable trading relationships for the benefit of farmers and their communities.

Cooperative Coffees engages in regular communication with the farmers to create an open and mutually agreed upon contracts. On their website, Cooperative Coffees names each producer organization they work with and posts the contracts and agreements involved in production, reports of annual trips to the farms, and more details.

To further their efforts, in 2009, Cooperative Coffees launched FairTradeProof.org, a website which allows consumers to see copies of contracts, invoices and background information about the supplying producer coops and their communities. Consumers can track their coffee from the crop to their cup by following the transactions from different farmer cooperatives to roasters affiliated with Cooperative Coffees.

To learn more about their work in Principle 2 and all the Principles, visit CoopCoffees.com