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Fairtrade bananas with stickers of Fairtrade Mark

What is the difference between Fairtrade and organic?

What does it mean when a product is labelled Fairtrade? And does that mean the product is also organic?

3 min read | September 25, 2020

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Rickety wooden structure used by vanilla farmers in Madagascar

Why there’s nothing vanilla about vanilla farming

by Fairtrade Africa. What has this picture got to do with ice cream?. You wouldn’t imagine it would you

2 min read | September 24, 2020

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Keyla, Norandino co-op

Who will farm coffee in the future?

If young people seeking further education desert coffee farms en masse, where will the next generation of coffee farmers come from?

4 min read | September 24, 2020

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Sugar Cane chained together

Black Lives Matter and De-colonising Trade

Fairtrade Foundation’s CEO Michael Gidney reflects on the links between slavery, racial injustice and the need for change in global trade

4 min read | August 23, 2020

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Evalyne Nyawira with her coffee bush

Four Heartbreaks and then coffee

Marriages end all the time, yes, but for me, it wasn’t just a marriage that ended, it was a process, a big happily-ever-after plan that had ended. Like many who had attained university education, I had migrated to the city of lights from a little village called Kamutira in Kirinyaga County, Kenya.

4 min read | August 19, 2020

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Glasses of Rose

International Rosé Day

Today is International Rosé Wine Day, an excuse to fill your glass and enjoy the treat that is pink wine. It’s also a chance to celebrate the farmers and producers who create the delicious wine we pop into our Fairtrade cotton shopping totes.

2 min read | August 14, 2020

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Afternoon tea spread - three tier stand with cakes, scones and tea

7 ideas for afternoon tea at home

Afternoon tea is one of the nation’s favourite traditions and something you can easily recreate at home, with a varie-tea of Fairtrade goodies.

3 min read | August 12, 2020

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Panda flowers - Fairtrade worker picking roses

It’s a small world when it comes to gender inequality

All over the world families have found a major side effect of the pandemic has been the increasing difficulty of finding nursery care for younger children, and widespread school closures.

3 min read | July 31, 2020

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Cocoa

Nestlé’s KitKat will stop being Fairtrade – FAQ

Since our statement about cocoa farmers’ concerns regarding KitKat moving away from Fairtrade, we have received many messages of support for farmers, as well as some questions. We have also seen questions on social media, so we would like to answer as many as we can.

5 min read | July 25, 2020

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Eileen Maybin

Eileen Maybin Tribute

Eileen was an expert in media and PR: never in the limelight and never needing or desiring to be. It may sound like a contradiction, but Eileen was self-effacing and modest while having complete confidence that her skillset would help propel the organisations she worked for into the spotlight and deliver their messages to an audience of millions.

3 min read | July 23, 2020

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