Category: Trade
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Fairtrade Fortnight kicks off
Fairtrade Fortnight kicked off today with the good news that sales of Fairtrade products in the UK topped £1bn for the first time in 2010. Around 20% of roast and ground coffee, and 20% of bananas sold in the UK are now Fairtrade, and on a daily basis Britons now consume 9.3m cups of tea
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Labour’s Manifesto on International Development
Extract from Labour’s manifesto The global poverty emergency: our moral duty, our common interest Labour’s international leadership on development has helped transform the lives of millions across the world. Yet too many people still live in extreme poverty, die from treatable diseases, or are denied the chance to go to school. We will lead an
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What has Labour done for Fairtrade?
Today is the first day of the Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs from 22 February to 7 March. Around the world, millions of lives have been touched, changed and improved by Fairtrade: providing decent earnings to producers in developing countries. This year, the theme of the Fairtrade Fortnight is “The Big Swap”. Think about the products
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DFID supporting unions to make a difference in the world, not corrupt backhanders
Reading Carl Mortished’s article in the Times on Monday you’d think that they had discovered a corrupt and secret way for the Labour Party to pass money to the unions. But then on closer inspection you realize that all the information is in fact clearly and transparently available on the TUC and DFID websites. The Times
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Oxfam interviewed by Progress on food & agriculture
Interview by Progress of Oxfam’s Director of Campaigns & Policy, worth a look. “Oxfam’s campaigns and policy director Phil Bloomer responds to Hilary Benn’s announcement on the future of food in Britain. He says greater production and sustainability are possible – if the government can manage to redirect subsidies away from vested interests and towards
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Have a break, have a [Fairtrade] Kit Kat
Great news today as Kit Kat, Britain’s biggest selling chocolate biscuit, will go Fairtrade from January. About 1 billion Kit Kats are sold every year in the UK and the switch is set to guarantee a better deal for more than 6,000 Ivorian cocoa farmers. Gareth Thomas MP, our Trade & Development Minister said: “I
Labour Campaign for International Development 