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How Fair is Fairtrade Chocolate?

There seems to be an outcry in the UK, because it has come to light that chocolates labeled Fairtrade may actually contain no Fairtrade cocoa (cocoa produced by disadvantaged third world farmers) because all cocoa is mixed before distribution to manufacturers.

from: The Sun (click image for full story online)

While this may be [...]

FAIRTRADE IN FOOD MANUFACTURING

I have always thought that FAIRTRADE offered a marketing advantage to the small scale food manufacturer. After all the FAIRTRADE sales in the UK in 2009 were 800 million pounds!

Now in the last few days we see 2 very different stories on FAIRTRADE chocolate, in the Australian Foodweek.

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Organic Business Guide – From field to market

This is not an organic food processing book that aims to get businesses into Organic Production. It is however a complete book on Organic business that will give the Food Processor a very good background if they are trying to bring organic into their business.

(click the image to open website)

The [...]

French Retail Food – Observations 4

My contacts with the British and Dutch markets lead me to believe that Organic and FAIRTRADE were important market movements in Europe.

What I have found is that this is clearly not the case in France. Recent news items from Britain seem to indicate that consumers who used organic products almost exclusively (Sky News 01/06/2008) [...]