Dinner Gala to Celebrate Fair Trade Month
What: October is Fair Trade month and RSF is pleased to be a sponsor of San Francisco’s premier Fair Trade dinner gala hosted by Samovar Tea Lounge. The evening’s activities will begin at 7pm with a twenty-minute multimedia presentation from panel speakers*. The cost is $40 per person.
When: 10.18.06, Wednesday, 7:00PM-9:30PM
Who: This event is sponsored by Samovar Tea Lounge; Alter Eco, a San Francisco based FairTrade company; TransFair USA, the third party certifier of Fair Trade products; ENGAGE, an international solidarity organization; RSF, a social finance organization; Young Women Social Entrepreneurs; and the Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition. For more information about the event click here.
Where:
Samovar Tea Lounge
Yerba Buena Gardens (Upper Terrace)
730 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415.626.4700
Why: In celebration of the 3rd annual Fair Trade month in October. Fair Trade is a form of global commerce where priority is given to trading with small and marginalized farmer groups, building trade relations based on solidarity and sustainability. This approach ensures farmers fair remuneration that covers the full cost of production and contributes to the continual improvement of working conditions and environmental sustainability. Fair Trade aims to promote solidarity, fair prices, direct contact, transparency, and dignity between producers and consumers.
*The panel includes:
• Anna Lappe is a bestselling author and renowned public speaker on food politics and sustainable agriculture, and named among the fourteen forward-thinking Who’s Who in Time Magazine’s Eco-Guide, Anna has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O Magazine, Organic Style, and Vibe.
• Ubon Yuwa is a rice farmer and leader in the organic movement in Thailand who helped establish the first Fair Trade rice cooperatives in Southeast Asia. Ubon is the Southeast Asian Representative of Via Campesinas, an international farmers organization, and has spoken throughout Southeast Asia and the Americas.
• Tristan Lecomte is the founder of Alter Eco a leading Fair Trade business that carries a line of one-hundred percent fair trade and sustainable food products sold at retail locations throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States.
• Joshua Kaizer is one of the leading organic tea importers in the USA working directly with tea growers from China and all over the world. For the past three years, Joshua has been very active in Yunnan, China working to develop Fair Trade tea projects with Yunnan’s ethnic minority groups. He will share his experience of Fair Trade tea in China with our group.
• Maya Spaull is the tea and rice Account Manager at TransFair USA, the third-party certifier of fair trade products in the US. She has been instrumental in helping connect producers of teas and rice to buyers in the US market.
Thursday, October 5th, 2006