APEC -THE GREED OF NATIONS Fr. Shay Cullen Andreas De la Cruz is a forty year old fisherman from Masinloc, Zambales and he has a story of triumph and loss to tell and all of it is due to the obsession of powerful nations to control and dominate and occupy the lands and seas of […]
The Fantastic Aeta Organic Fair Trade Mango.
November 17th, 2015 | Comments Off on The Fantastic Aeta Organic Fair Trade Mango. »The Fantastic Aeta Organic Fair Trade Mango Father Shay Cullen What depressed Susana, the chieftain of the Aeta indigenous people from Alibang community in Subic, Zambales was the bare-faced, shameless cheating and exploitation she and her whole village endured at the hands of the commercial mango traders in the nearby town. They only offered to […]
PREDA DRIED MANGOS SALES CONTINUE TO RISE IN THE UK markets.
November 13th, 2015 | Comments Off on PREDA DRIED MANGOS SALES CONTINUE TO RISE IN THE UK markets. »The excellent article below by Rebecca Smitheers reflects the economic growth of fair trade products in the UK market. Preda dreid mangos are in supermarkets and are leading the way for the betterment of the indigenous and small mango farmers of the Philippines. UK continues as largest international market for Fairtrade products with total reaching […]
INDIA : This is no storm in a teacup By Harsh Mander (The Hindu via CNUA).
November 11th, 2015 | Comments Off on INDIA : This is no storm in a teacup By Harsh Mander (The Hindu via CNUA). »A largely invisible, grim, humanitarian crisis, of mounting hunger, looms over several thousand North Bengal tea garden workers. Duncans, a leading tea company with 15 plantations in Darjeeling and the Himalayan foothills, has plunged its workers into a precarious state of illegal limbo. It has neither formally closed its gardens nor is it running […]
Aeta Farmers and Preda Fair Trade Certified Organic
October 27th, 2015 | Comments Off on Aeta Farmers and Preda Fair Trade Certified Organic »*German human rights commissioner visits the Preda project *Ambassador’s Cup tournament nets big donation For the first time in Philippine history, mango fruits grown and harvested by the indigenous people of Zambales and Bataan have been internationally certified as organic and recognized as a top export product that can help hundreds of indigenous Aeta families. […]
