Interrupcion
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Interrupcion, founded in 2000, is a global organization of non-profit and for-profit organizations and is based in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. Interrupcion works to integrate social change into everyday life by actively facilitating and promoting community involvement, responsible consumption
Ethical consumerism
Ethical consumerism is the intentional purchase of products and services that the customer considers to be made ethically. This may mean with minimal harm to or exploitation of humans, animals and/or the natural environment...

 (eg. the purchase of fair trade
Fair trade
Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries make better trading conditions and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as higher social and environmental standards...

 products), and microcredit
Microcredit
Microcredit is the extension of very small loans to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship. These individuals lack collateral, steady employment and a verifiable credit history and therefore cannot meet even the most minimal qualifications to gain access to traditional credit...

 enterprises. As of June 2006, Interrupcion has offices in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, New York City
New York City
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, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, and Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain
Spain
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History

A group of university students from different universities of Buenos Aires, Patagonia and Cuyo, got together to create an organisation that would creat the bases for a new society without poverty and with joy for work, respect for the environment, possitive social impact in every process behind a progress and an institution where every private action will contribute for public good. Fair Trade, Organic Farming, Renewable energies and Sustainability are the 4 action programs of interrupcion. Today, it is a membership based organisation with more than 100 producer members in South America.

Programs

see http://www.interrupcion.net

see also http://www.interrupcionfairtrade.com

interrupcion* fair trade*:

When producers have financial stability, they can devote special attention to the product and sustainable operations to produce a tastier, healthier product.

interrupcion* creates socially responsible, fair trade supply chains spanning from the seeds to the consumers- linking producers to global markets and implementing the Interrupcion Fair Trade* (INFT) sourcing process to generate investment in quality product, quality of life and a sustainable future.

The Interrupcion Fair Trade* pricing model aims to empower and invest in producers to create healthy, sustainable environments for workers while providing a wage premium that enriches lives and quality of production.

INFT* Price: Market Price + Wage Premium + Sustainability Premium

1) Market Price: Current market price

2) Wage Premium: Allows workers to create a financially sustainable life for their families providing better nutrition, doctor’s visits, school tuition and more.

3) Sustainability Premium: Goes toward investment in sustainability and working conditions at the site of production. This includes projects such as recycling programs, water / waste management, employee benefit plans, safer working conditions and more.

Premiums are distributed to producing partners to ensure a long-term supply of quality, sustainable production. A more efficient direct trade model is employed, which generates strong relationships with producers and efficient value chains.

Based on international Fair Trade standards, INFT* criteria focuses on four principal areas of improvement: Economic Development, Social Investment, Labor Conditions and Environmental Sustainability. In each area there are minimum standards which must be met before selling to Interrupcion Fair Trade* and progress requirements which provide a path for continual sustainable development.

INFT* standards are verified at the producer level by Interrupcion Social Responsibility*, a non-profit sister company of Interrupcion Fair Trade*.

See also

  • Ethical consumerism
    Ethical consumerism
    Ethical consumerism is the intentional purchase of products and services that the customer considers to be made ethically. This may mean with minimal harm to or exploitation of humans, animals and/or the natural environment...

  • Fair trade
    Fair trade
    Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries make better trading conditions and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as higher social and environmental standards...

  • Microcredit
    Microcredit
    Microcredit is the extension of very small loans to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship. These individuals lack collateral, steady employment and a verifiable credit history and therefore cannot meet even the most minimal qualifications to gain access to traditional credit...

  • Sustainability
    Sustainability
    Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...

  • Sustainable living
    Sustainable living
    Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources and his/her own resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet...

  • Sustainable agriculture
    Sustainable agriculture
    Sustainable agriculture is the practice of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment...

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