A few weeks ago, I was in the mountain villages of Zambales talking to a group of small subsistence Aeta farmers, an indigenous people. The agriculturists from the Preda Fair Trade project were there to help them gather and weigh their wild mangos and Preda Fair Trade staff were ready to pay them 100% higher than they would get from the lowland traders. The chieftain, Mario Pabalan, speaking in Tagalog although his native language is Zambal, told us about the trading hardships they encountered.