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You Need to Pay a Few Pennies More For Your Bananas

Bananas are underpriced. This most popular fruit is one of the cheapest fruits per pound in the produce aisle. The reason is that the farmers and farm workers who grow and harvest the fruit are underpaid, It's time for fair trade bananas.

Bananas are underpriced. This most popular fruit is one of the cheapest fruits per pound in the produce aisle. The reason is that the farmers and farm workers who grow and harvest the fruit are underpaid, while the global companies who export and distribute them keep the biggest share of the profits. Kim Chackal, director of sales and marketing for Equifruit Kim Chackal is the director of sales…

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One and half million farmers and workers round the world are benefiting from increased sales of Fairtrade products.

Fairtrade International’s Annual Report for 2014-15 - “Global Change, Local Leadership” - highlights the benefits enjoyed by 1.5 million Fairtrade producers in 74 countries. The report points to the introduction of new ways of sourcing Fairtrade gold and increased sales of established products such as cotton and cocoa as the main factors behind the global success story.

When Fairtrade burst onto farmers’ fields and shop shelves 25 years ago, it was bold. Today we still nurture that innovative energy to ensure that Fairtrade is responding to the ever-growing challenges that small-scale farmers and workers face.

- Harriet Lamb, Chief Executive of Fairtrade International.

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