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Fair Trade International Symposium 2012

Posted on February 2nd

Following on from the success of the first three Fair Trade International Symposiums held in Montreal (2002 and 2006) and Montpellier (2008), a 4th symposium will be held at Liverpool Hope Buisness school on 2nd - 4th April 2012. For more details go to the events page of the international Fair Trade Towns Discussion Forum [...]

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Third International Fair Trade Towns Newsletter - December 2011

Posted on December 8th

2011 has been a great year for the international Fair Trade Towns movement that saw the celebration of 1,000 Fair Trade Towns worldwide, Differdange as the first Fair Trade Town in Luxembourg, New Koforidua as the first Fair Trade Town in Ghana and Africa, Kumamoto as the first Fair Trade Town in Japan and Asia [...]

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Fairtrade Seminar for the Cooperative Coopeagri R.L Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica

Posted on December 2nd

On behalf of more than one thousand small coffee and sugar cane growers the Cooperative Coopeagri R.L Perez Zeledon (FTT), Costa Rica invite you to a Fairtrade Conference on 3 February 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. 
This is a great opportunity for all  interested to share our experiences of the Impact of Fairtrade in our Communities since we [...]

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Fair Trade International Symposium

2012-02-03

pFollowing on from the success of the first three Fair Trade International Symposiums held in Montreal (2002 and 2006) and Montpellier (2008), a 4th symposium will be held at...

Food miles

2012-02-01

pI have been selling fairtrade goods as a matter of principle for about 15 years, but recently have begun to question how the fairtrade policies at producer level may run...

Latest Campaign of the Season

2012-01-30

pTake a look at the latest Campaign of the Season a href=http://www.fairtradetowns.org/resources/campaign-of-the-season-1/ target=_blankhere/a to see how you can take part...

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