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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. PR: I got interested in issues of hunger and poverty when I was in college, and was particularly interested in rural poverty in the developing world, and started studying ways to approach that, alternative ways to approach that.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

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In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts. So just trying to get us to really see that.