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  • Close-up of green coffee cherries ripening on the bush.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Close-up of yellow coffee cherries ripening on the bush.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Close-up of coffee plants in a nursery. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Close-up of coffee plants in a nursery. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Close-up of roasted coffee at SIGLO XXI in El Salvador.
    el_salvador_hawkey_20120228_593.jpg
  • closeup of freshly harvested peanuts in a Del Campo farmers' field in Chinandega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Del_Campo_20111221_...jpg
  • Closeup of roasted coffee in a bowl ready for cupping in the COCASJOL laboratory. COCASJOL, Cooperativa Agropecuaria Cafetalera San José Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in San José de Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCASJOL_20120201_01...jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-07.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-06.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-04.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-05.jpg
  • A boy in Mizak, a small village in the south of Haiti.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-H054.jpg
  • An Andes Coop member pours red coffee berries into a manual depulping machine in a village near the town of Andes. While much of the depulping is still done by hand, or by small machines, the coop has invested millions to build a state-of-the-art processing mill that takes coffee in berries, instead of coffee processed by hand. This will allow the coop to closely control quality and improve profits by producing more high-quality coffee.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • A coffee nursery in Tascalapa, near Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The nursery, was set up by Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT to help replace coffee stock lost to leaf rust, and was supported by Fairtrade Finland.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20160715_125.jpg
  • A coffee nursery, set up by Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT to help replace coffee stock lost to leaf rust in Pitontes, Santa Barbara, Honduras, was supported by Fairtrade Finland.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20160715_019.jpg
  • Flowering tomato plants. Cooperativa Las Canoas is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer in San Miguel Las Canoas, Sololá, Guatemala. Some 90 indigenous Kaqchikel farmers make up the coop.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Las_Canoas_20120326...jpg
  • A coffee nursery in Tascalapa, near Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The nursery, was set up by Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT to help replace coffee stock lost to leaf rust, was supported by Fairtrade Finland.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20160715_123.jpg
  • A coffee nursery in Tascalapa, near Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The nursery, was set up by Fairtrade-certified coffee coop PAOLT to help replace coffee stock lost to leaf rust, was supported by Fairtrade Finland.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20160715_118.jpg
  • Roasted coffee at the Flor del Pino Coop. The women's group at the Flor del Pino Coop have been supported by Finnish Fairtrade to set up a coffee roaster, increasing the ability of the coop to add value to their work.
    Honduras_Fairtrade_Finland_0058.jpg
  • Henrietta Sibeko, a nurse at the St. Francis Care Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, displays antiretroviral medications the clinic dispatches to people living with HIV and AIDS. The centre is a project of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg, and is supported by Catholic Relief Services, a member of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance.
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  • In the coffee testing and tasting laboratory in NORANDINO de Café, batches of coffee are tested to detect quality.
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  • Workers place stickers on organic Fairtrade bananas in one of several processing plants at Fairtrade-certified banana producers APPBOSA in Samán, Marcavelica, Piura, Peru.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161010_227.jpg
  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • Coffee being tested in the RAOS laboratory. RAOS, Cooperativa Regional Mixta de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_RAOS_20120206_147.jpg
  • A heavy crop of coffee growing at Fairtrade-certified coop Flor del Pino in Honduras.
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  • Coffee plantlets are transplanted into growing bags by hand. Extensive coffee and cocoa nurseries are run at the COAGRICSAL cooperative in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COAGRICSAL_20160714_...jpg
  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Green coffee cherries on coffee plants on an Andes Coop coffee farm in Antioquia, Colombia.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
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Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • preparing organic Fairtrade bananas for export at a processing plant in Salitral, Piura, Peru
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161012_415.jpg
  • Testing the size of bananas at a BOS coop plantation in Salitral, Piura, Peru. The minimum and maximum sizes are 39mm and 44mm.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161012_408.jpg
  • Workers place stickers on organic Fairtrade bananas in one of several processing plants at Fairtrade-certified banana producers APPBOSA in Samán, Marcavelica, Piura, Peru.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161010_225.jpg
  • Workers prepare organic Fairtrade bananas in one of several processing plants at Fairtrade-certified banana producers APPBOSA in Samán, Marcavelica, Piura, Peru.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161010_216.jpg
  • Workers place stickers on organic Fairtrade bananas in one of several processing plants at Fairtrade-certified banana producers APPBOSA in Samán, Marcavelica, Piura, Peru.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161010_197.jpg
  • Organic Fairtrade bananas float in a tank to wash out latex from the stalks in one of several processing plants at Fairtrade-certified banana producers APPBOSA in Samán, Marcavelica, Piura, Peru.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161010_067.jpg
  • Organic Fairtrade bananas float in a tank to wash out latex from the stalks in one of several processing plants at Fairtrade-certified banana producers APPBOSA in Samán, Marcavelica, Piura, Peru.
    Peru_Hawkey_bananas_20161010_066.jpg
  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111116_0...jpg
  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111116_0...jpg
  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111116_0...jpg
  • Yellow coffee cherries ripening on the bush. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Drying cocoa beans at CAYAWE cocoa coop at Aniassue, Ivory Coast.
    IvoryCoast_Hawkey_20161114-20161114_...jpg
  • Drying cocoa beans at CAYAWE cocoa coop at Aniassue, Ivory Coast.
    IvoryCoast_Hawkey_20161114-20161114_...jpg
  • a girl has ankle bracelets and bare feet to dance
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  • A heavy crop of coffee growing at Fairtrade-certified coop Flor del Pino in Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20160713_011.jpg
  • Coffee being tested in the RAOS laboratory. RAOS, Cooperativa Regional Mixta de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_RAOS_20120206_144.jpg
  • Roasted coffee beans in the laboratory at RAOS. RAOS, Cooperativa Regional Mixta de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_RAOS_20120206_133.jpg
  • Mixed ripe and green coffee cherries are picked together at the end of th season to avoid leaving green cherries on the bushes, they are later separated out, only the mature cherries are suitable for export coffee. Cooperativa Agropecuaria de Producción Flor del Pino is a Fairtrade-certified producer based in Ocotepeque, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Flor_Del_Pino_201202...jpg
  • Ripe coffee cherries on the bush in the Flor del Pino Coop. Cooperativa Agropecuaria de Producción Flor del Pino is a Fairtrade-certified producer based in Ocotepeque, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Flor_Del_Pino_201202...jpg
  • Ripe red coffee cherries at a farm linked to COSAGUAL. COSAGUAL, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Gualcinse Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Gualcinse, Lempira, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COSAGUAL_20120104_04...jpg
  • Ripe yellow coffee cherries at a farm linked to COSAGUAL. COSAGUAL, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Gualcinse Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Gualcinse, Lempira, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COSAGUAL_20120104_02...jpg
  • Ripe coffee cherries waiting to be picked at a COMISAJUL-associated farm. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Ripe coffee cherries waiting to be picked at a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • A handful of de-husked, or milled, coffee is remove to test its moisture content. COCASJOL, Cooperativa Agropecuaria Cafetalera San José Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in San José de Colinas, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCASJOL_20120201_00...jpg
  • Coffee plantlets are transplanted into growing bags by hand. Extensive coffee and cocoa nurseries are run at the COAGRICSAL cooperative in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COAGRICSAL_20160714_...jpg
  • Cotton is seen here as a bud (called a square), a yellow blossom, a cotton boll and a burst cotton boll ready for harvest, in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_376.jpg
  • A flowering coffee bush in Nahuala coop. Nahaula is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Nahuala_20120321_09...jpg
  • Tea leaves in a tea wilting box at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Sun shines through a banana leaf
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  • Inside the Siglo XX! laboratory, roasted coffee is prepared for testing. Siglo XXI a certified fairtrade producer based in El Salvador.
    el_salvador_hawkey_20120228_592.jpg
  • In a coffee cupping session in the Andes Coop, a batch of coffee is roasted and ready to be prepared for a tasting session.<br />
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The coffee cupping is an essential process to identify any defects in coffee and to make sure that the coffee properties are correctly identified to maximise the price it can achieve on the market.<br />
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Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Coffee husks are used at the Anserma coop as fuel for the drying machinery in the mill. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
    Colombia_Hawkey_Anserma_Fairtrade_20...jpg
  • 12 November 2016, Stockholm, Sweden: A record-breaking 39 centimeters of snow has fallen in a single November day over Stockholm, and the Royal Game Park of Djurgården in central Stockholm is glistening with snow.
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  • Coffee cherries are sorted for processing. The ripest cherries are selected for the highest quality coffees.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Fingers: Eleven-year old Juan Lopez studies Braille with Mariano Enriquez at Piña Palmera, a center for community based rehabilitation in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Fingers: Eleven-year old Juan Lopez studies Braille with Mariano Enriquez at Piña Palmera, a center for community based rehabilitation in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • A cow in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A close up of a frame of honeycomb in a beehive, bees sucking up honey to move to another location. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_041.jpg
  • A close up of bees on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_046.jpg
  • A close up of bees on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_043.jpg
  • A close up of bees on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_037.jpg
  • A close up bees on of a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_030.jpg
  • Close up of the grave of William Walker in Trujillo, Honduras. Walker invaded Nicaragua and became its president in 1856 and ruled until 1857, when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860.
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  • closeup of a young Nigerien girl's face with scarifications
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  • A closeup of a queen cell on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_051.jpg
  • A closeup of a queen cell on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_050.jpg
  • Closeup view of a wall bearing the names of some 25,000 civilians killed during El Salvador's long civil war. The wall, located in Cuscatlan Park in San Salvador, was sponsored by several private groups and dedicated in December 2003.
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