African Unification Front
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Informative Links and Analyses:
The bumpy road out of poverty
East African Fine Coffees Association
October, 2005
AFRICAN UNIFICATION FRONT FAIRTRADE COFFEE CAMPAIGN
African Trade & Economic & Agricultural Reforms
The AUF is inaugurating a new campaign to promote fair trade with Africa and economic reforms. The campaign is primarily targeting the coffee industry.
The agenda of the AUF Fairtrade Coffee Campaign includes the following:
* Calling for reparations and international trade reforms
* Campaigning for African economies to gain control over exports and imports, to ensure a favourable balance of trade
* Campaigning for fair-trade-certified buying prices, for coffee and other African agricultural produce
* Campaigning for urgent attention at the high unemployment rate in Africa – directly (formation of new industries, promoting African entrepreneurship, preference for African produce) or indirectly (policy changes)
* Expansion of African workers’ rights, and ending their exploitation
* Expansion of equality within African societies
* Formulating policies on fair-trade reforms and presenting them to relevant government bodies
* Opening the coffee campaign with an open letter listing our demands, a letter to be sent to Nestle and other coffee buying companies, to the newspapers of coffee producing countries, and to coffee unions
* Review of ‘loan’ and ‘aid’ systems, and the selling away of Africa’s wealth in exchange for them
* To encourage trans-African trade (AU interstate commerce), and to prioritise it
* Uniting African Coffee growers’ unions and co-operatives
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