You probably know already that it’s Fairtrade Fortnight.
The Fairtrade Foundation are encouraging every household to swap just one of their everday buys for a Fairtrade version.
It’s so easy to get in on the action…
Fairtrade Farmers for a fair wage
Choose to buy Fairtrade Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Pasta, Jam, Bananas, Honey, Peanut Butter, Sugar, Biscuits, Snackbars, Oil, Fruitjuice, even Ricecakes or many other Fairtrade products in place of the type you’d normally buy.
Taste the difference, revel in the justice and hopefully, you won’t even want to swap back.
Then you can register your swaps online at the Fairtrade website.
Remember Fairtrade isn’t about charity, it provides the world’s poorer farmers with a fair wage for the food they put on our tables. So take a look at our Fairtrade Section and see if there’s something you could put on your table with pride.
I have found it difficult to assess which countries are favoured by Fairtrade. I read somewhere that there are more relatively rich South American farmers in the scheme than poor African farmers.
Is this any help?
Fairtrade producers:
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/default.aspx