And to conclude…

It’s been an interesting fortnight.  Clear themes have emerged from the information put out by the Fairtrade Foundation and from the insights of my colleagues and I just want to draw attention to some of these: Climate change shouts at us from every page.  If you are a climate activist, you cannot ignore this aspect…

Futurebuild – Day one highlights

TT was supposed to be taking a whirlwind trip to London to check out this years Futurebuild. However things don’t always go as planned, but here’s the highlights from day one. https://youtu.be/tORzpdkGfDk Day one , Futurebuild 2023

Telford calling

For some time, I have been trying to find fairtrade enthusiasts in Telford without success.  Therefore, when asked to write a blog about what is happening in Telford for Fairtrade Fortnight I was struggling! Why?  Are my research skills failing?  is no-one out there?!  I was delighted to find that things are afoot at Stitchley…

FAIR TRADE: POINTING THE WAY TO ETHICAL FOOD SYSTEMS?

By Ralph Early, Food Scientist, Food Ethicist and Food Writer Food systems can be complex structures. Particularly when they stretch around the world to bring foodstuffs to our tables that would have been unknown to most people only a couple of generations ago. Indeed, today we routinely enjoy an immense diversity of fresh and preserved…

The Fairtrade Foundation

As the originator of Fairtrade Fortnight, the Fairtrade Foundation deserves a special mention this week. When Fairtrade launched in 1992 they were pioneering. They exposed the extent to which small scale producers were penalised and marginalised by conventional trading systems, and they put ethics and environmental standards back on the agenda. Although there are now…