We're in the first week of Fairtrade Fortnight, and Eighteen Rabbit has a basket of goodies in the window for a prize raffle.
The theme this year is Climate Justice, in the aftermath of the COP26 talks last November. The message is that there is still time to mitigate the most extreme effects of climate change, but only if pledges are turned into action. Big changes to the global economy are needed. On the personal level, people can buy Fairtrade products, but action also has to be taken by governments and multinational companies. The Fairtrade Foundation is already planning what they want to do for COP27, which will be held in Cairo.
Farmers in poorer countries are already feeling the effects of climate change. In Honduras, Guatamala and Nicaragua farmers have seen their crops of coffee, cocoa, honey and bananas devastated by extreme weather events.
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