fairness in farming continued from page 24 |||a drives through the el milagro de baja were too intimidated to report problems on farms from working conditions to safety concerns-where the culture was to keep your head down "i have seen many changes and we have also seen how people themselves have collaborated to give their point of well as their obligations," says santiago ers to be part of a team to help improve empowering the farmers partnered with equitable food initiative certification program focused on impro- ving working conditions for farmworkers and raising agricultural standards inter- strawberries to costco through its parent the organization provides work- ers with updated training on health how to identify sexual harassment in the workplace and on health and safety bunch of fairtrade-certified equifruit organic bananas el milagro de baja farm head security guard alfonso santiago velazco workers harvest berries at efi-certified strawberry farm with instructions on warm-up exercises as carts to transport the produce being part of the organization enabled the farms to act quickly when health and safety guidelines were upda- andrew & williamson increased sanitiz- farmworkers wore personal protective that set standards for better prices decent working conditions and fair terms plied costco warehouses in the toronto area with organic and fairtrade-certified is a cooperative made up of 555 small producers farming collectively in peru and employing 385 community mem- in ecuador founded by a group of small- banana farms cooperatives band together jointly to invest in communal improvements create quality control and certification review teams building export relation- work with fairtrade to eradicate out- dated banana business practices "when we look at how low prices for bananas at production level are cutting corners on wages for workers cooplas estacion princ
