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With its Trade Justice program RELUFA seeks to link on one side educational and advocacy activities about the impact of globalization on small producers with on the other side the trade of an alternative product for customers in the US and the EU.
 While raising awareness about the struggles of Cameroonian fruit farmers against a foreign banana export company affiliated with La Fruitiere/Dole Foods Inc., RELUFA is organizing to offer both these farmers as well as American consumers an alternative. Grown by producers who have sustained devastating losses to make place to the plantations of this foreign company, and processed according to Fair Trade standards by two driers groups from the same town, dried pineapple, mango, papaya and banana is now being marketed in the US through Partners for Just Trade. This product is 100% natural and oven dried. No sugar, sulfite or preservatives are added.
Having started this cottage industry Fair Fruit project following the 10 years export experiences of the involved fruit driers, RELUFA is working the driers, local and worldwide experts to substitute the bottled gas currently used for the dehydrators with a renewable energy source through a simple, low cost biogas installation. The network aims to have at least part of the dehydrators up with this system by the end of 2009.
 Fair Fruit is the first Just Trade product to be distributed in the US by RELUFA through Partners for Just Trade.
Partners For Just Trade
(011) (314) 773-7358 (main) (011) (314) 772-2309 (fax)
pjt@partnersforjusttrade.org
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