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The Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) will host the 1st FAST Financial Fair (FFF) side-event at the XXII Latin American Coffee Symposium, which will be held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, from 1-3 September, 2010. The side-event aims to promote the important role of responsible finance in the sustainable coffee sector.
Montreal, Qc. July 27th, 2010- Leading socially oriented financial institutions will meet one-on-one with qualified sustainable producer organizations to explore and agree on financing opportunities that meet their business needs.
Read more: FAST_FFF_Press Release_Honduras.pdf.Montréal, March 10, 2010 – Recognizing the need of access to finance for farmers in developing countries, FAST and ForeFinanceTM signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in the field of credit risk scoring and to develop other financial management tools.
Read more: FAST-FF_eng_march_10_final.pdf.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.With the support of HIVOS, Proyecto CAMBio, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE, as per its initials in Spanish) and RAMACAFE, the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) will hold the 1st Sustainable Finance Forum to promote long term investment opportunities in sustainable coffee trade and encourage sustainable production in Central America.
Read more: Press Release_August_31.08.09.pdf.Montréal, March 24, 2009 - In collaboration with Montréal International, the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) today officially inaugurated its Secretariat in Montréal. The international organization's mission is to ensure the continued growth of sustainable production and trade by increasing the number of producers in developing countries who successfully access quality trade finance.
Read more: Montreal International - FAST - EN.pdf.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE TRADE FINANCING MECHANISMS KEY TO CONSERVING WORLD'S FORESTS
WWF and FAST Hold First Ever Summit to Encourage Long Term Investments in Sustainable Trade To Conserve Most Valuable and Threatened Forests
Read more: GFTN-FAST Joint Press Release.pdf.
