Chocolate making life sweeter for poor women in a forest war zone Published in the Yorkshire Post on Monday 14 January 2013 10:18 Marie-Claire Kid looks at one organ-isation helping to lift people out of poverty in Africa, all from a North Yorkshire house. Cristina Talens sits in Bettys Tea Rooms in her hometown [...]
Launch of our Dfid Project with 10,000 women cocoa farmers in North Kivu, We meet the dynamic team from DRC who will be running the radio shows for farmers Our project with original beans was launched at the end of July 2012 and Cristina and Joseph began to plan their trip to the DRC to [...]
The Lorna Young Foundation (LYF), with our partner, the Award-winning gourmet chocolate and conservation brand Original Beans, is launching a ground-breaking new initiative with women cocoa farmers in one of the most conflict-torn areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This new venture has been made possible following our successful joint application to the [...]
A new Fair Trade Federation has been set up – moving us forward, or yet another confusing layer for consumers and producers to contend with? http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/fairtrade/2012/06/11/beyond-the-label-building-better-fair-trade-businesses/
By any stretch of the imagination – the SSN has achieved phenomenal results (see our other recent blog posts) for a project that set out to work towards the empowerment of smallholders and to increase their sustainability and livelihood chances. But the successful ingredients of the SSN are even more impressive when the tiny budget [...]
The LYF has now broadcast 27 weekly farmer radio programmes since Autumn 2011. The radio programmes are already demonstrating a significant impact. For example, smallholder farmers have already changed some of their practices in the cooperatives where the Farmer Field Listening Groups are operating – as a direct result of the SSN. The first 2-4 [...]
This short blog post brings in to focus the injustice that small farmers in Ethiopia still face – has anything really changed in the industry despite the efforts of the ethical trade movement and the exposure from Black Gold and others. We can make drive better trading practice but there has to be the will [...]
Here at the LYF we are really proud of the Oromo Coffee Company. With our Oromo colleagues and other supporters, we set the OCC and, although it’s still a struggle for everyone involved, it’s still going and growing. A truly unique and wonderful social enterprise. This article tells the story of the OCC and of [...]
NJU product development workshops at Fairtraders’ Cooperative The NJU teams have been working hard on developing their products. They had a fantastic day at the fair traders’ cooperative in Holmfirth when groups from Doncaster Leeds and Huddersfield met up for the day to take part in workshops around developing and marketing fairly traded and ethical [...]
Reaching the Smallholders – Small charity, Big Loud Programme! Climate change, deforestation, food security, droughts, poverty alleviation, export markets, sustainable agriculture, gender, HIV… Is it impossible to reach smallholders in developing countries on all of these issues at the same time? The LYF thinks not … At 8.30 pm last night, the first ever radio [...]
