To compete in the 2016 Olympic Games, good nutrition is a crucial part of training, as any of the 10,000 plus athletes who have descended on...
A family in Warwickshire has been forced to flee home after finding a cocoon of Brazilian wandering spider in a bunch of bananas. Keith Hobbs and...
Athletes, officials, workers and visitors will be served fairtrade-only bananas, tea, coffee and sugar during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Fairtrade Foundation has revealed....
Proponents of free trade and fair trade will lock horns in London later in September, in a debate around which is most effective in helping developing...
A petition launched by the Fairtrade Foundation asking supermarkets to pay a fair price to banana farmers has reached 70,000 signatures and has been handed to...
A poll has revealed that the majority of consumers would agree to pay more for bananas if this means that farmers have better wages and working...
The Fairtrade system doesn’t just protect farmers and communities; it also ensures that food production is sustainable for the whole ecosystem, as this is the only...
There are several communities around the world whose prosperity depends on bananas. Despite one in three bananas sold in the UK being certified Fairtrade – meaning...
Sales in the UK’s Fairtrade sector rose by 14% in 2013 compared to the previous year, but campaigners have warned that there is much room for...
As 2013 begins to wither in to the distance, Ben Goulder looks to 2014 and the recent announcement that next year’s Fairtrade Fortnight will take place...
Tesco has tracked its 25 bestselling products from farm to fork and found that a large amount is thrown away – especially in the home –...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Fair Trade 2013. Dutch free speech organisation Loesje once questioned whether it would “not be more logical to label unfair products”. But for...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Fair Trade 2013. Dutch free speech organisation Loesje once questioned whether it would “not be more logical to label unfair products”. But for...
Asda’s decision to sell European bananas instead of American ones raises questions about the source of a product and the working conditions of suppliers. So is...
Supermarket chain Asda has announced it will start selling bananas from the Canary Islands instead of from the Caribbean and Central America, in an effort to...