Global Exchange : What Price Virtue? At Some Retailers, 'Fair Trade' Carries A Very High Cost (#)

  „Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation in London, which licenses Sainsbury's, says of the chain's prices, "The concern of the Fairtrade Foundation is about the price paid back to the producer organizations." But Alistair Smith, international coordinator for Banana Link, a nonprofit British group that promotes the rights of banana workers and small farmers, called Sainsbury's fair-trade prices "unjustified," adding, "It would be all right if a much higher price was going to the producer."“

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Fairtrade | News | Press Release

  „"Many families who make their living from coffee are impoverished and desperate," says Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation which awards the Fairtrade Mark to coffees where the retailer has paid the Fairtrade price. "Evidence of low and declining living standards is clear. Many farmers have been struggling for years as they have failed to recover their production costs for several harvests running.“

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Fairtrade | News | Press Release

  „"People do look for the reassurance that the producers in developing countries get a better deal – and the FAIRTRADE Mark gives them that," says Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation. "Which is why, in line with rising awareness of the Mark, sales of all those delicious Fairtrade foods and drinks are going through the roof with a 90% increase in the past two years alone. It’s great news for Fairtrade farmers".“

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Fairtrade | Publications | Fair Comment | Summer 1998

  „The organisers, led by Oxfam and Wiltshire Agenda 21, got no fewer than 19 supermarkets to take part. Branches of Budgens, Safeway, Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose were persuaded to put up the Fairtrade Foundation's new posters and leaflets, and make contributions to competitions. The local media covered events and BBC Wiltshire Sound even managed to include a live link-up with a producer in Nicaragua during a discussion on its Breakfast Show.“

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Fairtrade | Food and drink | Coffee | Buy

  „Sainsbury's Own Brand Fairtrade Colombian Fresh Roast Ground Coffee and Decaffeinated Fairtrade Colombian Fresh Roast Ground Coffee“

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Fairtrade | About Fairtrade | Chronology of Fairtrade in the UK

  „Sainsbury’s now sells around 1,000,000 FAIRTRADE Mark bananas a week. Sainsbury's now have own brand FAIRTRADE Mark coffee, tea, chocolate and bananas apart from the wide range of branded products with the FAIRTRADE Mark.“

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