The fair trade organisations distributed a petition addressed to European commissioners for Trade Peter Mandelson and commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel, in which they asked for:
Market regulations to compensate the small farmers for the instabilities in the natural resource prices
Access to information about the coffee market
The right for networks of small farmers in Africa to join negotiations.
Hundreds of volunteers across Flanders lured people to the tables with free fair trade coffee, hot chocolate and cake. The action came at the end of a month were films and debates brought the situation of small coffee farmers in Africa under the attention.
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