Influencing others - As well as the fair trade organisations themselves, there is a growing demand for other trading companies to adopt more ethical policies towards their own suppliers. Campaigns to make the world trading system fairer remain crucial. The attraction of fair trade, however, is that it is so easy to support. Simply by choosing one brand off the shelf rather than another you can offer producers in the world's poorest countries a secure future - check out the links on this page, and put your money where your mind is. The banana story From intensive to fairly traded organic bananas.
New Internationalist looks at the banana industry.
The principles behind fair trade are simple. A Danish non profit organisation working for fair trade in the foodstuffs business.