FAIR TRADE Question: over trials and perspectives
(mm) The coffee is on the breakfast table and a roll, an egg and some bananas, and accesses but no. Since this question is in the air, from which corner of the world things are well and those who worked for it hard. The impending talks about Fair Trade can reflect on each table short.
So it now seems to many people in Germany and other countries to go. The confidence of Fair Trade products is growing and people are aware of the benefits of world shops and fair trade products consciously. Ban on child labor, fair wages and fair trade, sustainable farming and seem Tags known to be on fair trade. Even European cities and towns set in recent times more on fair-traded products.
Forum of Free Trade: Fact Sheet: Trends and developments in fair trade in 2010
The fact that not every politician is pleased reflected in Uelzen, where a request to waiver of the Greens products from exploitative work was rejected for economic reasons. For the District Uelzener Theodore Elster (CDU) was, according to Spiegel, especially the work of the children "a competitive advantage." This view, however, seems not to be rare. Especially the EU Commission to prevent communities or regions that rely on fair trade. Thus, as the Spiegel report, sued in May, the province of Noord-Holland in the European Court of Justice. The rules of the fair alone products, "discriminate," according to the EU Commission, other providers, especially those that have better value for money.
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is not the same course, but organic fair and fair is not equal organic. Who buys such as the "fair and organic" brand for Lidl, although the seal, but also supports the exploitative policies of companies Lidl. Also, green electricity is not always what it seems. For smaller municipal utilities, such as the EVH in Halle / Saale, I buy the green electricity, coal and nuclear support, but all associations for renewable energies. One reason for doubt? Probably not. Anyone who thinks seriously about their own consumption and critical thinking does has traded the possibility of fair, how to purchase organic products. In the beginning it is enough to consider what products at what seasons and what ever in our part of the grown and produced to such a small view of the means of production seems to get cheaper products.
particular concern are the many regional initiatives and one-world shops. Also in the hall there is a one-world store where purchased guaranteed fair trade products will be able to: www.weltladenhalle.de/
But Fair Trade is also in the everyday lives of students possible. The Hochschule Merseburg (FH) has its own one-world-shop booth in the cafeteria: a world www.hs-merseburg.de/ ~ /
In the dining halls of the Student Union hall you can at least have fair trade coffee and chocolate often etc. . Purchase
tends Conversation at the breakfast table to a close. The food and coffee of course, have tasted yet, but pay attention to the project over to Fairtrade products will remain.
Sources / Further information:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0, 1518,728263,00 html.
http://www.freitag.de/wochenthema/0946-klimagipfel-kopenhagen-konsum-hartmann
http://www.transfair.org
http://www.forum-fairer-handel . a world de
http://www.weltladenhalle.de/
http://www.hs-merseburg.de/ ~ /
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