Colombia signs FTA with EU

Broadly speaking our supermarkets are 100% Fair Trade bananas.

Chicquita can go fuck itself.

The Banana is the most popular fruit in the world. We spend more than £10 billion a year on them! Bananas have long been a popular fairtrade product, and several supermarkets now only sell bananas certified with the fairtrade mark. In 2008 one in every four bananas sold in the UK was fairtrade, but where do they all come from?



Colombia
Fairtrade is benefitting the community and the environment in Asoproban farms in Colombia. Members have access to courses in dental health care, preventive health care and hygiene as well as accountancy and audit techniques. The Agricultural Committee has cut back aerial crop spraying by three cycles to protect workers and the environment. Asoproban now sprays less than many large Colombian plantations but achieves the same levels of quality and productivity.

“A consumer who buys a Fairtrade banana knows that they are contributing to the life of a small producer here in Colombia, and what’s more, they are contributing to a whole lot of different causes and are supporting the health and wellbeing not just of the banana producers but their whole community” – Deris Ariza, Asoproban

http://smoothiecast.co.uk/fairtrade/where-do-your-fairtrade-bananas-come-from/

only that they are Fair Trade and not Chicquita whatever.

Check out the EU Banana row with the USA sometime too.

are so dominant that they can be designated as fair trade if their working conditions meet the fair trade conditions whereas for other agricultural products fair trade products likely comes from smaller operators and cooperatives, and also includes environmental safeguards.