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Alexa Chung loves Fairtrade cotton at LFW

20 Feb 2012 15:18

Harriet Lamb, Alexa Chung and Safia Minney of People Tree at London Fashion Week

By Harriet Lamb, Executive Director, Fairtrade Foundation

It’s vital in life to know your limits. What you’re good at, and what really is just not you. Well I didn’t become a fashion model for very good sound reasons.

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Harriet Lamb visits banana farmers in the Windward Islands

8 Feb 2012 10:23

By Harriet Lamb, Executive Director, Fairtrade Foundation

No-one could avoid smirking when I said I was going to the sunny Caribbean island of St Lucia on work. Yeah, yeah….. But what can a girl do, when some of our most important producer partners happen to be the banana farmers of the Windward Islands which includes St Lucia as well as St Vincent and Dominica.

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Fairtrade Fortnight (27 Feb - 11 March) kicks off our 2012 campaign!

Take a Step in 2012

In 2012, we’re asking everyone to take a step for Fairtrade.

Hot foot it over to www.fairtrade.org.uk/step for more about our exciting new campaign and get planning your events for Fairtrade Fortnight and beyond...

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Read Fair Comment Spring 2012



A Cumbrian farmer visits Fairtrade banana farmers in the Windward Islands and a Fairtrade chocolate brownie recipe inside the latest version of our Fair Comment newsletter.

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FLO Monitoring Report Highlights Fairtrade Impact for Producers



Just published by Fairtrade International, the 2011 Monitoring Report is packed with data and analysis on Fairtrade certified producer organisations, farmer and worker numbers, production and sales figures, and Fairtrade Premium payments and expenditure.

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