When the cooperative was created, 70 percent of members were tenants and sharecroppers. Today, after 10 years, everyone owns their own plots. This has happened to people who had nothing.
Wilson Pedrosa Lima is a Fairtrade coffee farmer at UNIPASV cooperative in Brazil, and features on the front cover of Fairtrade International’s new Annual Report.
(Source: fairtrade)
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