Tate & Lyle are going to make all their retail sugar products Fairtrade certified by the end of 2009!
Raynaldo Aban from San Joaquin village in Corazal, Belize, is one of the 6,000 community farmers who will benefit from the £2 million of Fairtrade premiums for investment by farming communities in the first year alone. He says, “The income that we will get will help us in many projects, such as infrastructure, and community development…”.
Among the projects will be repair of the school, community centre and farms damaged by Hurricane Dean in 2007.
Well done Tate & Lyle!
Will you be celebrating by buying a bag from Waitrose or Nisa or do you already buy Whitworths Fairtrade sugar?
Do you think that Tate & Lyle have gone far enough or do you think they should work on making their commercial sugar products Fairtrade as well?
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is great and will be even better when they ensure every grain of sugar they actually produce is FT. this will surely enable other products to e well on their way to becoming FT so help escalation.
Also hopefully other companies as large as tate and Lyle will be inspired to look at their working practices.
My friend Vik’s Fairtrade shop Arkadash has fine fairtrade tshirts for men, women and children. Well that’s what she says anyway. Try http://www.arkadash.co.uk and see for yourself. I’ve only bought her shoes personally.
The value-added is in the food processing. This is why in Fair Trade Lebanon we decided to export the whole product instead of its raw materials only.
More about our activities in my blog:
http://www.bloggingfairtradelebanon.blogspot.com
Would like to have your opinion…
keep up the good work.
Really well done Tate & Lyle! Go for it!
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