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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… Continue reading FAIR TRADE: POINTING THE WAY TO ETHICAL FOOD SYSTEMS?

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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… Continue reading The Fairtrade Foundation