Fair trade coffee and...immigration

We read plenty of information about the facts and figures of fair trade. But it’s interesting to see the benefits of fair trade being attached to a particular economic and social issue.

In a piece written by David Kennedy, after participating in a Global Exchange Reality Tour to Chiapas, Mexico, he looks at how fair trade can raise the incomes of coffee farmers sufficiently to help them stay on their own lands.

Those who can’t make a living join thousands of others on the road north to the U.S. border.

As Kennedy says, if a little less money were allocating to securing the border, and a little more were spent supporting fair trade, there would likely be a lot fewer immigrants seeking entry to the U.S.