We’ve mentioned the flower industry a couple of times recently, with this Valentine’s day post on Naivasha, and a follow-up on Oserian. For those seeking a little more information, look out for this book out on April 2nd. It’s called ‘Gilding the Lily: Inside the Cut Flower Industry’, by Amy Stewart (whose blog, Dirt, is [...]
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Reply on Oserian’s Fairtrade practices
A few weeks ago I wrote about Naivasha’s flower farms, and the environmental and social impacts on the region. One of the more troubling aspects of the story is that some of the farms are certified Fairtrade, but have still seen worker protests. My friend Zbigniew, who is pioneering Fairtrade in Poland, wrote to the [...]
An introduction to supermarkets
Every week 32 million of us shop in supermarkets. They’re a part of our landscape and a part of our weekly schedules. They have brought affordable food to all, increased the range of foods that we eat, and considerably reduced the time we spend shopping and preparing food. It has become fashionable to bash the [...]
Lift the label, by David Westlake and Esther Stansfield
Lift the Label: the hidden cost of our lifestyle’ is the book that accompanies ‘Lift the Label‘, Tearfund’s ethical living campaign. It is aimed at Christians in particular, inviting them to think about the people and the stories that lie behind our consumer choices. Traditionally the more conservative branches of the church that Tearfund often [...]
One billion hungry people
The number of hungry people in the world is due to reach 1 billion for the first time this year. While the economic crisis gripped us here in the west, it was the food crisis that defined 2008 for many people. It has begun a new cycle, and like last year, it is being under-reported. [...]
Get involved in World Fair Trade Day 2009
The World Fair Trade Organisation has declared the 9th of May 09 to be World Fair Trade Day. The theme will be ‘Big Bang!!’, and drumming events are being held worldwide: “Kicking off on the date line, in the Cook Islands, circling the earth in a rolling programme of drumming events, through all cultures and [...]
Who are the WFTO?
The International Federation of Alternative Trade (IFAT) rebranded and became the World Fair Trade Organisation in October 2008. It is currently mounting a major campaign to raise awareness, with a World Fair Trade Day planned for May 09. How are they different from the Fairtrade Foundation? Well, the two groups have differing visions for fair [...]
Belching out the devil – global adventures with Coca Cola, by Mark Thomas
We’ve mentioned Coca Cola a few times before, so I was pleased to see a new book was out about them, Mark Thomas’ ‘Belching out the Devil: Global adventures with Coca Cola’. I’ve always liked Mark Thomas’ brand of protest politics, investigative journalism and stand-up comedy, and his Dispatches programme was a useful summary of [...]
Superbadger
Tearfund’s Superbadger celebrated its first birthday last week. The campaigning Facebook application has delivered over 88,000 letters over the last twelve months, to Tesco, Umbro, and Seb Coe, as well as many other companies and people not ending in ‘o’. “When we started SuperBadger we had no idea it would be so successful and have the [...]
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