Environmental trading Updates, Commentary and New Content

• • An Update on Fair and Ethical Trading Organizations (Jan 2012)
• • Chocolate industry under the spotlight (Oct 2011)
• • UK coffee certification overview (Oct 2011)
• • Fairtrade Foundation Commercial Conference 2011 round-up (Oct 2011)
• • Fair Trade USA resigns its membership of Fairtrade International (Sept 2011)
• • Rising demand for ethical jewellery opens market for new companies (July 2011)
• • Fairtrade-certified gold jewellery showcased (June 2011)
• • First FLO and FSC dual-certified products due on market this Autumn (June 2011)
• • Harvard, LSE and MIT research shows value of Fair Trade logo and ethical labelling (May 2011)
• • Fair Trade USA releases 2010 Almanac (May 2011)
• • Fairtrade sales to reach 2 billion sterling in 2012 (Oct 2010)
• • Fairtrade Represented at Leading Conference (July 2010)
• • Marks & Spencer to sell Fairtrade vegetables (May 2010)
• • Fairtrade 15 years aniversary (Dec 2009)
• • Czech Fair Trade Association joins the Fairtrade family
• • Pilot program presented for Fair Trade system in the Peruvian textile cluster (Nov 2009)
• • Fairtrade farmers to increase by 100% thanks to new investment (Oct 2009)
• • UK public continues to buy Fairtrade, despite the recession (Sept 2009)
• • Starbucks serve first Fairtrade lattes and cappuccinos in UK and Ireland (Sept 2009)
• • Fairtrade and FSC embark on dual certification pilot project (Sept 2009)
• • FLO-ARM Gold Standard under development (Sept 2009)
• • Fairtrade Cadbury Dairy Milk expands into Canada, Australia and NZ (Sept 2009)