Organizer Materials
These materials are part of a "toolkit" for taking action to bring Fair Trade Rice to your community. As this process is both dyanmic and interactive, we hope that you will share your successes and challenges with us so that can continue to update our materials.



Fair Trade Rice Organizer Packet
Coming Soon! The newly revised Full Text Organizer Packet

Updated sections are available, below

Section 1
Grains of Change
Fair Trade Rice Backgrounder
Ten Things You Can Do
Section 2
Bring Fair Trade Rice to Your Community
Section 3
Fair Trade Rice Product Information Sheet
Why Businesses Should Carry Fair Trade Rice
Sample Letter to the Editor
Sample Petition Letter to Dining Service
Section 4
Trading Away Livelihoods
Sowing the Seeds of Justice
Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the Thai-US FTA
Meet Phakphum, a Fair Trade Jasmine Rice Farmer
Meet Sesh Raj Singh, a Fair Trade Basmati Rice Farmer
Section 5
Fair Trade Rice Recipes
Web Resources
Quotes from Fair Trade Farmers

PowerPoint Presentation: The Stories Behind our Food: Fair Trade Rice from Thailand
PowerPoint Presentation - Click here to contact the Global Action Director to request a CD of the presentation. Click here to download a PDF format (5MB) presentation.
Click here to download the Companion Presentation Text and Notes

ENGAGE Video Journey
Grains of Change: The People's Voice , produced by Carolyn Barnwell

Fair Trade Rice Farmer Profiles
Prasong Seesa-Ard: Fair Trade Up Close with a Thai Jasmine Rice Farmer, by Angela Kassahun and Thalia Kahn-Kravis
Bunsong Matkhao and Thai Fair Trade Jasmine Rice, by Angela Kassahun and Thalia Kahn-Kravis
Meet Phakphum, a Fair Trade Jasmine Rice Farmer, by Ellen Roggemann
Meet Sesh Raj Singh, a Fair Trade Basmati Rice Farmer, by Ellen Roggemann and Chris Westcott, in collaboration with Enray, Inc.

Rice Cooperative Profile
Reaping the Harvest: Farmers, Fair Trade and Community Empowerment, by Robin DeCook, Fall 2005