Fair Trade In the Media

Fair Trade Fortnight 2007 - 28 April to 13 May 2007

See a wrap up here.

7 May 2007

Radio Australia, Pacific Beat - AUST:Keen to source more fairtrade products in the Pacific

www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s1915979.htm

Australia is the fastest growing market in the world for Fairtrade products and Fairtrade importers are keen to source more products from the Pacific. In the past year Fairtrade into Australia, mainly coffee, has grown by more than 50-percent making it worth over eight million dollars. The Fairtrade industry began with efforts by aid agencies to ensure producers in developing countries received more income and benefits from the products they produced. Cameron Neil, from the Fairtrade Association of Australia and New Zealand, says PNG coffee is becoming increasingly important.

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28-29 April 2007

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24 November 2006

Today's Sydney Morning Herald  - the lift-out "Essential Life & Body section"

Feature on Amy Yates Peruvian products in today's Mosman Daily

The Bang Consortium gals had a great breakfast TV spot as "mums with a conscience" on Channel 7 yesterday