As recently as the year 2000,there were just ten Fairtrade producer organizations in Africa and there were no opportunities for them to associate or collaborate. An initiative by the pioneer Fairtrade coffee cooperatives in East Africa to form a regional network and learn from each other began to change that. The idea caught on, more regional networks followed, or culminating in the opening of the first Fairtrade Africa office in Moshi,Tanzania in 2005. nowadays, Fairtrade Africa is a network of more...
Source: fairtrade.net