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Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
About FAST
A global, member driven, non-profit association, FAST represents lenders and producers dedicated to bringing sustainable products to market.
FAST brings together this diverse group of stakeholders for the first time to work collectively to increase the number of producers in developing nations who can successfully access quality trade finance, tailored to their business needs, as they enter sustainable markets.
Upcoming Events
- World Coffee Conference - 26 Feb 2010 - 28 Feb 2010 in Guatemala City, Guatemala
Other News
- The Missing Middle In Agricultural Finance - 2 Feb 2010
- FAST is growing! - 27 Jan 2010
- Café Équitable: les besoins de financement sont énormes - 14 Aug 2009
- RAMACAFE trae nuevas fuentes de crédito - 13 Aug 2009
MONTREAL, December 5, 2009- UTZ CERTIFIED Good Inside has officially joined the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) as a new associate member. The sustainable agriculture program is dedicated to creating an open and transparent marketplace for agricultural commodity products through training, certification, and traceability systems designed to improve quality and increase productivity for better market access.
Read more: UTZ_FAST_PressRelease-.pdf.Guanacaste, November 12 to 14, 2009- Once again, the non-profit association of SINTERCAFE celebrated its XXIII International Coffee Week, this time taking place in the region of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where the most important stakeholders, producers as much as buyers, in the coffee world came together once again.
Read more: FAST_SINTERCAFE.pdf.BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, October 22, 2009 — Failure by the world’s financial leaders to support responsible forest finance will allow rampant deforestation to continue and contribute to the disastrous effects of climate change.
WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) and the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) on Thursday asked global financial institutions to take a leading role in stopping climate change during the XIIIth World Forestry Congress, taking place this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Read more: Responsible Forest Finance Can Help Stop Climate Change.pdf.
