The Liberation Fairtrade Podcast

The series highlights how the Liberation philosophy helps improve the lives of nut farmers throughout the developing world

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Subtitle: The series highlights how the Liberation philosophy helps improve the lives of nut farmers throughout the developing world
Summary: Liberation Nuts, the first and only 100% fair-trade nut company has created a series of educational podcasts to celebrate the upcoming celebration of the naming of London as a fair trade city on the 23rd of October as well as its Annual General Meeting on the 28th of September, 2008. The event will bring together the Nut Growers that directly own Liberation in Kerala. The series highlights how being part of Liberation helps improve the lives of the nut farmers in the poorer parts of the world by featuring the issues that they face in their communities. Being a part of this company allows Farmers to secure better prices for their crops while injecting invaluable revenue into the their communities in turn supporting education, cultural pursuits, medical aid thus increasing their well being. Nearly half (42%) of the company is owned directly by nut farmers and gatherers from Malawi, Mozambique, Nicaragua, India, El Salvador, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, allowing them to manage the marketing, promotion, sale and export with the guidance of their UK counterparts, Twin Trading and Equal Exhange. Set up in 2007 by leading fair trade organizations Twin Trading and Equal Exchange, with the financial backing of charitable organizations like Comic Relief, The Hunter Foundation and ethical investors. Liberation helps more than 22,000 small-holder producers and their families lifting their ways out of poverty. Virtual post screening discussions will be held online, where people from around the world will able to take part in the Fairtrade debate. Viewers are invited to become a fan of Liberation Nuts on Facebook Page and comment in our discussion thread: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Liberation-Nuts/18489797337 Join the Debate! Visit our website: http://chooseliberation.com/
Author: Liberation Foods; Category: Education; Explicit: No

Track Listing

Liberation Foods / Episode 10: Small holder challenges and Fairtrade	0:02:17	0	480.005	8.92 MB
This video features Jorge Chavez Zapata, President of the Coopmulte-RL Co-operative in Nicaragua. Coopmulte is one of many smaller co-operatives that make up Del Campo, a Nicaraguan umbrella co-operative which represents more than 3,000 families organized through similar small farmer cooperatives. Del Campo was set up in 1997 and provides commercialization services to its members, who sell Fairtrade and organic products on the national and international market. Del Campo also gives technical assistance to its members, undertakes processing, delivers training and facilitates access to finance. keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 9: Casildo Quispe from Bolivia talks about Liberation and Fairtrade	0:04:13	0	480.005	18.78 MB
This video features Casildo Quispe. Casildo is president of COINACAPA a co-operative of over 304 families who gather our organic and fair-trade certified Brazil nuts. Liberation does not sell Brazil nuts yet under our brand name but if you buy Tesco Fairtrade Brazil nuts then there is a large chance they came through Liberation from COINACAPA. COINACAPA has been exporting all of their produce to the Fairtrade market since 2004 when they obtained Fairtrade and organic certification. Brazil nut gathering is the primary cash crop of the members. In this Video Casildo talks about the dangers of Brazil nut gathering, his worries for the future of the Amazon rainforest and what it means to be part of Liberation. keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 8: Fairtrade funded education projects	0:02:46	0	480.005	11.19 MB
This video features Brigido Soza, President of the Juan Francisco Paz Silva Co-operative in Nicaragua, one of the many small producer co-operatives that supply our tasty nuts. In Nicaragua's case it is Peanuts or Groundnuts. Here he is talking about how the Fairtrade premium that his farmers receive for selling their groundnuts has helped to build a local school. These types of projects are an important part of the Fairtrade movement where co-operatives use the profits from trade to directly benefit the local communities in the places where that actual produce is grown. As Mr Soza says "The impact of Fairtrade in my village, in my family and in my co-operative has been really very positive." keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 7: Tomy Mathews from Kerala, India, talks about Liberation and Fairtrade	0:03:31	0	480.005	15.76 MB
This video features Tomy Mathews who represents the Fairtrade Alliance of Kerala, or FTAK FTAK is located in Kerala, a province in southern-western India. Its members are spread across the 6 hilly districts on the Western Ghats of Kerala. Kerala has rooted tradition of farmers' movements to support impoverished/indebted farmers. FTAK was set up in January 2006 by members that had already been organised into farmers movements aimed at tackling the widespread problem of farmers' indebtedness. FTAK solely focuses on issues related to trade justice and views fair trade as an important tool in its efforts to regain the farmer his/her rightful place in the global economic regime. keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 6: Mothers Song	0:01:54	0	480.005	6.6 MB
This video features Brigido Soza, President of the Juan Francisco Paz Silva Co-operative in Nicaragua and his little friend Yerik Alexander Arauz Perez. They are singing a traditional Nicaraguan song about Mothers to mark Mothers day. The Juan Francisco Paz Silva co-operative is one of the many small producer co-operatives that supply our tasty nuts. In Nicaragua's case it is Peanuts or Groundnuts. To find out more please visit us at http://www.chooseliberation.com Or you can find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberation-Nuts/18489797337 keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 5: What it means to be part of Liberation & the Fairtrade network	0:02:38	0	480.005	11.84 MB
This video features the farmers of Del Campo, a Nicaraguan co-operative which represents more than 3,000 families organized in small farmers cooperatives. Del Campo was set up in 1997 and provides commercialization services to its members, who sell Fairtrade and organic products on the national and international market. Del Campo also gives technical assistance to its members, undertakes processing, delivers training and facilitates access to finance. Del Campo supplies Liberation with our delicious peanuts along with co-operatives in Malawi and Mozambique in South East Africa. To find out more please visit us at keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 4: Nicaraguan Environmental Song	0:02:50	0	480.005	10.08 MB
This video features Brigido Soza, President of the Juan Francisco Paz Silva Co-operative in Nicaragua, one of the many small producer co-operatives that supply our tasty nuts. In Nicaragua's case it is Peanuts or Groundnuts. Here he is singing a traditional Nicaraguan song about the environment with his small friend Yerik Alexander Arauz Perez! To find out more please visit us at http://www.chooseliberation.com Or you can find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberation-Nuts/18489797337 keywords:

Liberation Foods / Episode 3: Dyborn Chibonga from Malawi talks about Liberation and Fairtrade	0:02:24	0	480.005	10.06 MB
This video features Dyborn Chibonga. Dyborn is the chief executive officer of the National Smallholders Farmers Association of Malawi, or NASFAM. NASFAM provide the delicious peanuts or groundnuts that go into our peanut and cashew mixes! NASFAM works with over 100,000 smallholder farmers to form and manage cohesive grass roots farmer groups for input and output marketing NASFAM Vision is to be the leading smallholder owned business and development organisation in Malawi that promotes farming as a business, producing economic and social benefits for its members, their communities and the country. keywords:

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Harry Hill visits Malawi on behalf of Liberation, Britain's first 100% Fairtrade nut company. Harry is launching his own line of Fairtrade nuts. 'Harry's nuts' will be available from 16th September onwards. for more information please visit http://www.chooseliberation.com Or you can find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberation-Nuts/18489797337 keywords:

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This video features Brigido Soza, President of the Juan Francisco Paz Silva Co-operative in Nicaragua, one of the many small producer co-operatives that supply our tasty nuts. In Nicaragua's case it is Peanuts or Groundnuts. Here he is talking about how the Fair-trade premium that his farmers receive for selling their groundnuts has helped to promote an important cultural festival. This is something you may not readily associate with Fair-trade but is an important part of the whole Fair-trade principle of using the profits from trade to directly benefit the local communities in the places where that actual produce is grown. keywords: Liberation Nuts Fair Trade fairtrade Foods Education educational podcast Harry's Nuts nut farmers growers

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