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Enns became the 1st FAIRTRADE City in Upper Austria
Posted on June 17th
After 5 municipalities in Upper Austria the first FAIRTRADE City was awarded with the title “FAIRTRADE Town” on the 23rd of April 2010 by the members of the provincial government Dr. Stockinger and Mr. Anschober on behalf of Federal Land Upper Austria.
Due to the support of the Federal Land Upper Austria, Südwind Upper Austria (a [...]
Amstetten is the 21st FAIRTRADE Town in Lower Austria
Posted on June 17th
FAIRTRADE Austria and the Federal Land Lower Austria are pleased about the commitment of Amstetten for FAIRTRADE.
Amstetten decides to use FAIRTRADE products on a local level.For this reason Michaela Hinterholzer, Member of the Lower Austrian Parliament, on behalf of Provincial Governor Dr. Erwin Pröll, and Traude Novy from FAIRTRADE Austria awarded Amstetten with the title [...]
FAITRADE Test-Weeks in the coffeehouse “Kipferl” –The sports club of Gablitz trades “fair”
Posted on June 15th
The shopkeeper of the local coffeehouse “s’Kipferl” in Gablitz, Reinhard Eggner, had a special idea to promote FAIRTRADE: “Test-Weeks for FAIRTRADE-coffee”. All customers are invited to taste FAIRTRADE coffee and vote if they would like to enjoy FAIRTRADE coffee in the future.
The idea is realised in cooperation with the FAIRTRADE-Town Gablitz. Also the sports club [...]
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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...
