One of our co-presenters at the recent Juice conference was the WorldChanging project. They have now kindly written up our work and suggested some further ideas at their excellent blog:
Alex also recently proposed an idea that could be stabilized with an infrastructure like Fair Tracing. He suggested developing transnational CSAs that would embrace the model of transparent, fair support of small farmers but look beyond the local to the possibility of connecting, for example, organic banana farmers in Guatemala with a CSA program to deliver those tropical goods to customers in upstate New York. If we were able to apply the well-organized, multi-functional digital system of Fair Tracing to the concept of establishing equitable global trade relationships for sustainable agriculture, we might well be able to simultaneously uphold the value of small, high-quality production and the mutual benefit of long-distance grower/buyer networks.