Manifesto of the Poor shows how Fairtrade has evolved practical and tested solutions to alleviate poverty. Written by the co-founder of Fairtrade, Francisco Van der Hoff Boersma, read the inside story of how the campesino movement started, and see how they organised democratically run cooperatives and cut out the middleman. Today, as a result, a wide variety of Fairtrade products are sold directly to home and export markets worldwide at a fair price for both consumers and producers. Fairtrade makes perfect sense in an imperfect world. It transforms buying goods into an ethical and pleasurable experience. Fairtrade gives power back to the people, enabling us to develop a more ecologically balanced and less exploitative world. AUTHOR: Francisco Van der Hoff is a Dutch worker-priest with doctorates in economics and theology. He co-founded Fairtrade 30 years ago. He lives in the mountains of Oaxaca in Mexico working with indigenous coffee farmers (campesinos).