The theme for this years World Fair Trade Day is Fair Trade + Ecology. The World Fair Trade Day is an international celebration of Fair Trade internationally, with worldwide events helping to put the focus on fair trade and ecology.
The usually takes place on or around the 2nd saturday of May each year, and this […]
BoBelle is an online retailer that is solely committed to fair trade and lives and breathes ethical trading, so each item you find in their great range is produced under fair-trade conditions and using the finest materials.
Here is a selection of the great products you can find on their website.
Eel Skin Purses
These beautiful brightly coloured […]
A large Northern regional food festival will have a global and fairtrade feel this year thanks to a deal with the Co-op.
The Wear Valley Food Festival which takes place on April 12th in Bishop, Auckland will sell Fairtrade food for the first time, tying closer links to third world producers. Among the Fairtrade products for […]
The award winning documentary ‘Black Gold‘ which explores the plight of Ethiopian coffee farmers apparently exposes the corruption surrounding the multi billion pound coffee trade. There will be a special screening of the movie organized by Fairtrade on the 10th of April at 7.30pm at The Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton.
A spokesperson for Fairtrade […]
As the first UK retailer, the Co-operative is switching its entire £16 million worth hot beverage category over to Fairtrade.
The consumer owned brand was also the first one to convert their entire own brand coffee over to Fairtrade coffee, and has now also converted their entire tea category, including the famous 99 tea over to […]
The coffee chain Starbucks, as if any of us needs an introduction to who Starbucks is, recently launched a new customer feedback site called MyStarbucksIdea.com allowing people to suggest changes and new products and vote on them.
There are already signs that Starbucks are listening to their customers suggestions, and hopefully they will listen to some […]
According to tv shows like Sex in the City it is all about handbags and shoes, so we decided to provide you with a little information about where you can buy great Fairtrade handbags.
With the rise of ethical consumerism more and more people are being aware of the products they are using and their ethical, […]
As we have seen Fairtrade hit record sales in the UK a recent Datamonitor report also predicts a good future of Fairtrade products.
In what is described as an “ethical revolution” the report suggests that by 2012 the UK fairtrade market might hit an impressive £800 million, an +15% increase globally. The report goes on to […]
According to an article in the Guardian this week, the rise in commodity prices in the last few years might become a threat to the Fairtrade concept.
In the last few years the price of cocoa and coffee has risen with 150% and 82% (since 2000), resulting in investors moving money into the security of the […]
Green & Blacks was for a long time one of those chocolate brands that i would see in some of the supermarkets but i never really thought much about buying it. That was until i became fairtrade aware, and i got introduced to the great taste of Green & Blacks chocolate.
As a fan of dark […]
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