Which 5 products would you use to convince a friend that Fairtrade is great in every sense?
I would use my favourite treats:

Ben & Jerry’s Toffee Crunch Ice-cream

This is just great - and I’m not usually a huge fan of toffee, but here it’s covered in chocolate and in nice large chunks in the vanilla ice-cream. [...]

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Money, Money, Money - I’ve found a way that we can even make our money Fair Trade!
The Dutch weave fairtrade cotton into their 10 Euro notes for strength and quality.
Luckily, there are ways to make our money in the UK Fair Trade without having to pay with everything with Dutch Euros! We can invest our [...]

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Inspiring, Informative and Insightful would be the best way to sum up the book I have just been reading.
Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles is written by Harriet Lamb, director of the Fairtrade Foundation , about how the movement started with 3 staff in a tiny office and grew into an international force, [...]

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Easter is very early this year - almost justifying all the supermarkets filling their shelves with Easter eggs on Boxing Day for a change.
With that in mind, here are some ideas for having a Fair Trade Easter:
 

Easter Eggs - Divine has a fabulous range and most of the supermarkets have some eggs, but my favourite [...]

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To provide a more masculine post after the tales of fabrics and sewing, I think it’s time to review a Fairtrade Beer.
BeeWyched is a honey’d ale brewed using Fairtrade Chilean Honey and Fairtrade sugar from Malawi.  And the good news is that it’s available from several supermarkets.
It has a smooth, sweet honey taste and I [...]

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If you really want to push the boundaries of Fairtrade, why not make your own!
Our son needs a new duvet cover, and we have been looking for the Fair Trade options.  There are plain (boring) white ones , tie-dye batik ones and some more conventional patterned ones.  But none are exactly what we are looking for…
So, [...]

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Surprise! I have a confession to make… on Thursday, I found myself in… Starbucks!  I’ll explain why later…
Success!  On Wednesday, I bought the Fairtrade individual coffee filters and Earl Grey tea bags from Marks and Spencers.  I can now call my workplace semi-Fairtrade. 
The individual coffee filters are very nice (strength 3), but I can tell [...]

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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, [...]

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Why am I doing this? Fair Trade t-shirts!
Why is finding Fair Trade t-shirts so hard? I’d noticed some plain ones in a fashion catalogue and really wanted one with [...]

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