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GREEN & BLACK’S COMMITS TO MOVE ITS ENTIRE CHOCOLATE RANGE TO FAIR TRADE CERTIFIED IN CANADA
Posted January 29th 2010
Pioneering organic chocolate maker Green & Black’s today announces its commitment to move its chocolate bar range, worldwide, to Fair Trade Certified – including Canada. Fifteen years ago Green & Black’s led the Fair Trade movement by launching Maya Gold™ – the first ever Fair Trade Certified™ product in the United Kingdom. Green & Black’s entire range is already organic, and thanks to continued expansion around the world, this move will make Green & Black’s the world’s leader in organic and Fair Trade chocolate.
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Fair Trade at the Gimli Olympic Torch Run
Posted January 18th 2010
January 6th saw Gimli host the Olympic Torch Run as it made its way through Manitoba’s Interlake Region. Premier Greg Selinger even took a turn at carrying the torch.
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MEDA Software Goes Bananas
Posted December 7th 2009
If you buy a bunch of Fair Trade or organic bananas you may get a product with a hidden stamp from Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA). MEDA has been helping cooperatives in Peru to streamline their certification procedures to maintain the rigorous requirements of Fair Trade and organic distributors and thus gain a premium price
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Fair Trade Suits Climate, Economy to a Tea
Posted December 2nd 2009
The “taking of tea” is steeped in tradition, a product of estates and small holders in Asia, East Africa and elsewhere, and a tasty and sometimes nutritious beverage of choice around the world. Unfortunately, the process of payment and environmental control, when tea is not produced through the fair trade system, leaves a lot to be desired. Basic farm commodity prices have been falling worldwide over the past generation and small holders are worst hit, creating abject poverty in the Global South, and insecurity and urban migration here at home.
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Spice Up Your Life with Fair Trade
Posted November 25th 2009
A recent survey by Fair Trade Manitoba and Probe Research determined that the next food products that most Manitobans wanted available as Certified Fair Trade were bananas and spices. Now, bananas are actually Canada’s most popular fruit – surprisingly for me, a huge apple fan! And you can find fair trade bananas more and more outside the big metropolitan areas like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Fair trade spices are still, however, not easy to find.
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Fair Trade Momentum Sweeps Cadbury into Action
Posted September 3rd 2009
Cadbury’s, Canada’s largest confectionery company, will make one of its most successful chocolate bar brands, Cadbury Dairy Milk, available as certified fair trade in this country by next summer, 2010. Twenty-two million dairy milk bars are sold annually in Canada. Thus, their going fair trade will double the number of fair trade chocolate bars sold each year across the country and will also mean that 11% of the chocolate sold by Cadbury’s in Canada will be fair trade.
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Shea Butter Good for Skin and Economy
Posted September 3rd 2009
It would seem that consumer appetite for new fair trade products runs more than skin deep! A new and revolutionary product, at least in terms of community livelihood in West and East Africa, is shea (pronounced shay) butter, produced by crushing the fruit (nuts) of the shea tree. The tree is called “African women’s gold” as it often represents the main source of income for its harvesters and processors.
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Fair Trade Wines Bring Human Rights to Producers
Posted September 3rd 2009
There is no longer any reason to whine! Manitoba has become a leader in bringing in eight fair trade certified wines to its Liquor Marts around the province, sourced from South Africa and Argentina
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Global Fair Trade Progress
Posted August 31st 2009
As we continue to make strides in promoting fair trade here in Manitoba, the global fair trade movement is working tirelessly to garner support for fair trade practices around the world. For the latest in global fair trade news, visit the Fair Trade Federation website at http://fairtradefederation.org/.
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Gimli is Manitoba’s first Fair Trade Town
Posted July 3rd 2009
Transfair Canada has recognized Gimli as Manitoba’s first Fair Trade Town. It is the sixth town in Canada to achieve this status.
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