Equator Coffees and Teas is a women-owned business based in Marin Country, California, and focuses on quality and sustainability. Equator has worked with Sustainable Harvest to source coffees since 2007 and has partnered with Sustainable Harvest to build relationships with producers in Tanzania and Ecuador, among other places. Equator truly understands the coffee supply chain from seed to cup and makes environmentally, socially, and economically…

The 2010 Fair Trade Almanac showcases record volumes of Fair Trade Certified imports, a dramatic increase in organic imports, expansion into popular new product categories, a surge in consumer demand and increased brand recognition for Fair Trade Certified goods. This continues to parallel overall growth in consumer awareness of Fair Trade, which has quadrupled in the past five years.…

CoffeeCSA.org is a community supported agriculture model that allows consumers to subscribe to regular deliveries of roasted coffee from specific family farmers. It is the world's first project to directly connect consumers with 140,000 small-scale coffee farmer entrepreneurs in Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Ethiopia. An unprecedented model in the coffee industry, CoffeeCSA empowers farmers to differentiate outside of the commodity crop model and deal…