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People in the UK Go Bananas! for Fairtrade
Posted on February 27th
Hundreds of thousands of people in Great Britain and Ireland will Go Bananas! from noon on Friday 6 March to noon Saturday 7 March by eating one Fairtrade banana each as part of a world record attempt. They’ll all be trying to break the world record for the greatest number of people eating a Fairtrade banana in a 24-hour period.
Global food crisis will deepen without action to support small farmers, warns Fairtrade Foundation
Posted on February 19th
Efforts to tackle the global food crisis will fail without urgent action to support small farmers in developing countries, says the Fairtrade Foundation in a new report launched today, The Global Food Crisis and Fairtrade: Small farmers, big solutions?
Two royal honours for Fairtrade Pioneers
Posted on January 6th
Bruce Crowther, whose campaigning work on Fairtrade led to the founding of the Fairtrade Towns movement, and Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director of Fairtrade chocolate company Divine Chocolate, have each been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List. They will receive their awards from a member of the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace some time during 2009.
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We now have 1,000 members, lets hear from you!
2013-04-03
I know this forum has been a bit quiet recently but you may be pleased to know that we now have 1,000 members. With over 1,250 Fair Trade Towns in 24 countries this global...
USED PLASTIC DRINKING STRAWS RECYCLING PROJECT
2013-03-25
Dear Fair Traders,
More collaboration
We have talked a lot this weekend at the 6th Internationl fairtrade towns conference about the need for more networking and collaboration. So I have set myself the mission to...2012-11-11
