Buyer Be Fair Screening with Projecting Change Film Festival

Fair Trade Vancouver is proud to be the community partner in an upcoming film screening organized by the Projecting Change Film Festival

Start your Saturday with a great breakfast (pastries, fresh juices and Fair Trade coffee), an inspiring discussion with local Fair Trade experts and a film.

Doors / breakfast: 9:00am
Film: 10:00am
Panel: 11:00am-11:40am

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ABOUT THE FILM:

Find out how retailers and consumers can use their purchasing power and market choice to make the world better for people and the environment.

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BUYER BE FAIR looks at two major trade goods—timber and coffee—to understand how product certification works. In isolated villages in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, some of the answers emerge.

A community’s timber is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as produced in a just and sustainable manner. A cooperative product, Fair Trade, Shade-Grown, Organic coffee finds growing market in the US. We see how these communities are benefiting from certification and what the obstacles are to broadening its scope.

Our look at certification takes us to countries around the world. We travel to the Netherlands (where the fair trade idea began twenty years ago), Germany, and England, to see how Fair Trade is winning commitments from cities and provinces as well as individual retailers.

We can globalize in ways that treat people fairly and respect the environment. Lushly photographed and filled with compelling stories BUYER BE FAIR shows how consumers and retailers can make choices that make a difference.

SPEAKERS:

Stacey Toews, Level Ground Trading

Jeff Geipel, Fair Trade Vancouver

SPONSORS:
Georgia Straight
Choices Markets

COMMUNITY PARTNER:
Fair Trade Vancouver