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Garstang celebrate its 10th birthday as a Fairtrade Town
Posted on April 22nd
When the market town of Garstang in Lancashire, made a pledge to support Fairtrade ten years ago, little did they realise that they were triggering a global social movement that a decade later has spread to millions of people in over 800 towns in 19 countries, and is growing by the day.
Fairtrade campaigners from around [...]
MAX HAVELAAR FOUNDATION PLEASED WITH PRELIMINARY RELIEF JUDGMENT
Posted on April 1st
The court in Alkmaar decided again that it is possible for municipals to add fairtrade criteria in public procurement documents! This means a reliability for Fairtrade Towns not only in the Netherlands too. Last week Douwe Egberts lost preliminary relief proceedings it had initiated against the municipalities of Den Helder and Alkmaar. The preliminary relief [...]
Ten years of the worldwide Fair Trade Towns movement
Posted on March 23rd
At a Public Meeting held on 27th April 2000 the people of Garstang voted to make their town the world’s first Fair Trade Town. Shortly after Garstang’s declaration George Foulkes MP (then the Under Secretary of State for the Department for International Development) visited Garstang to congratulate the move and said, “The beacon that has [...]
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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...
