Choose products with the FAIRTRADE Mark	“The catastrophic falls in the prices of major commodities – of coffee, tea, bananas, cotton, rice and sugar – are tearing apart lives across the developing world,” says Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation.
	“People are forced to give up their farms, to become labourers or city slum dwellers, to take their children out of school. These economic disasters are all the more shocking because they are not unstoppable natural disasters; this is not the force of nature unleashed in all its fury. These are man-made disasters, entirely preventable and worse still, they carry on even though everyone knows what the effects will be.”
Some Fairtrade Facts UK Fairtrade sales top £140m for 2004 – a 51% rise since 2003 Numbers of Fairtrade certified products rose from 150 in 2003 to 834 in March 2005. In time for Fairtrade Fortnight 2006, there were over 1000 items available and now that number has exceeded 2000! Many can be found in mainstream supermarkets and some even do their own brand items. Clothes, sports gear, flowers and over 100 varieties of Fairtrade wine have been added to the ever increasing lists of food and fruit available with the Fairtrade Mark. See the Fairtrade Foundation website for an up-to-date list and their press release on ideas for Fairtrade gifts. Every time YOU buy Fairtrade products, you encourage stores to stock them, which means bigger orders and more people helped. Keep on buying Fairtrade
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